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Untitled [The Family]
(Sin Título [La Familia])
Wifredo Lam 1978 mixed media and pastel laid down on board 11 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches
signed, inscribed and dated right WLAM, St. Gallen 1 Oct 1978.
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 32.
This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Eskil Lam, numbered 24-31.
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I Want To See You Again
(Quiero Volver a Verte)
Miguel Florido 2014 oil on canvas 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Miguel Florido: Choices,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL, April - June 2018,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, January, 2022.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Thirteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2015, page 139.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Vestiges
(Vestigios)
Irina Elén González 2025 acrylic on canvas 47 1/4 x 35 1/2 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
To be illustrated in the upcoming catalog
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-Two,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, December 2026.
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Song of the Waters
(El Canto de las Aguas)
Giosvany Echevarría 2024 oil on canvas 33 1/4 x 62 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2024.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 125.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Coral Gables, Florida.
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The Sisters Num. 59/150
(Las Hermanas Num. 59/150)
Cundo Bermúdez 1994 lithograph on heavy paper, unframed 39 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Manuel Delgado Collection, Caracas, Venezuela.
Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair,
Miami, Florida, February, 2024.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2023, page 62.
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Apostroph' Apocalypse #6620 [Series XVIII of XXV]
Wifredo Lam (Lithographs) 1967 acquatint on Japanese paper 20 x 15 inches
SOLD
Illustrated in Wifredo Lam: Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié, Catalogue Raisonné, Musée de Gravelines, France, 1993, page 89, no. 6620.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, 2023, page 34.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Largo, Florida.
Wifredo Lam's remarkable suite of prints, Apostroph'Apocalypse, exemplifies his most audacious printmaking work. The series was conceived as an art book, created in collaboration with the avant-garde writer Gherasim Luca during the mid-1960s, amid rising global nuclear tensions.
Lam’s draftsmanship reached new heights, reimagining his iconic human-horse hybrids as weaponized phantoms soaring through negative space – sensuous, vivid, and surreal. Beyond the mere assuredness of the line, works from this series have an uncanny texture and color. The distinctive shades are the product of a technique created by Wifredo Lam in collaboration with renowned printmaker Giorgio Upiglio in Milan, which allowed Lam to draw directly on plates coated with powdered pigment.
Only 25 copies of Lam's hand-signed and numbered prints from this series, produced on Japanese paper, exist. These individually signed and numbered Japanese paper editions have become among the artist’s most coveted prints. Lam's 14 plates from Apostroph’Apocalypse, executed in a bold and experimental process, have graced esteemed institutions like the Centre Pompidou Paris; National Library, Paris; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Villa Medici, Rome; Palazzo della Permanente, Milan; Yokohoma Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Fine Arts Central Academy, Beijing; Institute of Fine Arts, Hong Kong; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona; Musée du dessin et de l’estampe Original, Gravelines, France; and the Asian Art Archives, among many others.
NICO HOUGH
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Blue Flower
(Flor Azul)
Jorge Luis Santos 2020 acrylic on canvas 58 x 59 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 150.
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A Scene from Sancti Spiritus
(Una Escena de Sancti Spíritus)
Oscar Fernández Morera 1920 oil on canvas 31 1/2 x 24 inches
SOLD
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eight, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2010, page 15.
Acquired by a Private Collector in New York.
Oscar Fernández Morera was a self-taught prolific artist, whose preferred subjects were urban scenes, portraits and still-lifes, mostly inspired in places, people and elements of the province of Las Villas, Cuba, where he was born and lived. Of his body of work, art historian, Manuel Echevarría Gómez has written,
“We must recognize the protagonism of the light of the tropics in his palette, the vibrancy of sun light and the exuberance of nature in his works.”
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The White Model
(El Modelo Blanco)
Danuel Méndez 2024 acrylic on canvas 72 x 60 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 137.
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Gathering My Nostalgias
(Hilvanando Mis Nostalgias)
Irina Elén González 2019 acrylic on canvas 15 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair,
Miami, Florida, February, 2022.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eighteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2021, page 172.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Miami, Florida.
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The River (El Río)
Enrique Casas 2023 oil on canvas 19 x 16 inches
AVAILABLE
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Enrique Casas: Time Has Stopped,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida,
Sep. 2023 - Jan. 2024, and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.
Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair,
Miami, Florida, February, 2024.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2023, page 142.
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Seated Woman
(Mujer Sentada)
Roberto Diago 1944 mixed media on heavy paper 14 3/4 x 11 inches
SOLD
A self-portrait of the artist is represented
on the reverse, dated 27th of October, 1944,
Double sided artwork, signed by Josefina Urfé,
widow of Roberto Diago, on behalf of the artist.
Exhibited in Important Modern Masters,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL, Apr. – Sep. 2023,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eighteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2021, page 68.
We are grateful to Juan Roberto Diago,
grandson of the artist, for having confirmed
the authenticity of this artwork.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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The Birthday Cake
(El Pastel de Cumpleaños)
Yasiel Elizagaray 2024 oil on canvas 47 x 55 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
To be illustrated in the upcoming catalog
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-Two,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, December 2026.
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Making Coffee
(Haciendo Café)
Vicente Hernández 2019 oil on canvas
39 x 9 1/2 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair
Miami, Florida, February, 2020.
Exhibited in Vicente Hernández, Art as Protest,
Protest as Art, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, July, 2021, and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.
Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2021.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eighteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2021, page 166.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Three Flying Birds
(Tres Aves Voladoras)
Manuel Mendive 1998 oil and collage on canvas 45 1/2 x 52 1/4 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Private Collection, Miami, FL.
Exhibited in Manuel Mendive, Gary Nader Fine Arts,
Miami, FL, 1999, and illustrated in the corresponding catalog, unnumbered page.
Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. – Nov. 2024,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2024.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL, 2024, page 107.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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Happy Girl
(Niña Feliz)
Juan Roberto Diago 2022 bronze sculpture 2/2 38 x 31 x 16 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
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Extended Ceramic Dining Set,
one-of-a-kind crockery, 30 pieces
Amelia Peláez 1959-1962 individually painted and signed by the artist
six plates: 10 1/2 inches in diameter each;
six plates: 8 1/2 inches in diameter each;
six plates: 3/4 inches in diameter each;
six ceramic saucers: 4 3/4 inches in diameter each
six ceramic espresso cups: 1 3/4 inches in height, 2 3
SOLD
From this set of one-of-a-kind crockery, a group
of 18 plates, each individually painted and signed,
1959-1962, were exhibited in Amelia Peláez: The Craft
of Modernity, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL,
curated by René Morales and Ingrid W. Elliott,
Dec. 2013 - Feb. 2014, and illustrated in the
corresponding book, pages 104 and 105.
From this set of one-of-a-kind crockery, a group of Six Espresso Coffee Cups with Saucers, Exhibited in Cuban Art in the 20th Century: Cultural Identity and the International Avant-Garde, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, February 12 - March 27, 2016, curated by Segundo J. Fernandez, PhD, and illustrated in the accompanying catalog, page 82
Also exhibited in Cuban Art in the 20th Century:
Cultural Identity and the International Avant-Garde
at the Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL,
from January 22 - April 23, 2017.
Exhibited in The Lost Generation: Women Ceramicists
and the Cuban Avant-Garde, McMullen Museum of Art,
Boston College, Boston, MA, Jan. to Jun. 2024,
curated by Dr. Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta.
Also exhibited, same exhibition, at Frost Art Museum,
Florida International University, Miami, FL, Jun. 29
to Sep. 29, 2024, and illustrated in the corresponding
exhibition catalog, page 222.
One espresso coffee cup and one saucer appear
illustrated in the book Amelia Peláez, Cerámica,
María Elena Jubrias, Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana,
2008, page 80.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Nineteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2022, page 25.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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The Reunion #6
(La Reunión #6)
Wifredo Lam 1970 oil on canvas 29 x 36 1/4 inches
signed and dated lower right
signed and dated on reverse
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
J. Billoret-Destelle, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France;
Galerie Seine, Paris;
Private collection, Paris;
Private collection, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic;
Private collection, New York.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
Illustrated in Wifredo Lam, Max-Pol Fouchet,
First Edition, 1976, page 152, no. 188, and also in Wifredo Lam, Max-Pol Fouchet, Second Edition, 1989, page 156, no. 188.
Illustrated in Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné
of the Painted Work, Volume II, 1961-1980, Acatos 2002, page 341, no. 70.80.
To be illustrated in the upcoming catalog
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-Two,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida,
December 2026.
Accompanied by a copy of Certificate
of Authenticity issued by Madame
Lou Laurin-Lam, no. 98-01, Paris,
January 8, 1998.
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Empire
(Imperio)
Danuel Méndez 2023 acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Important Contemporary Masters,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida,
April - September 2023, and illustrated digitally
on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Miami, Florida.
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Self Portrait
(Autorretrato)
Agustín Cárdenas drawings ca 1948 graphite on paper 12 x 8 3/4 inches
AVAILABLE
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eight, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2010, page 70.
This work on paper by Agustín Cárdenas is part of a larger collection of drawings that were executed during the artist's formative years at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, San Alejandro, from 1943 to 1949. This cache of works was kept for decades by the artist's brother, Luis Cárdenas Alfonso, and later by his sister-in-law, Hilda Peñalver Sánchez. In many of these drawings, Agustín Cárdenas depicts scenes of everyday life. Common folk of the working class, beggars, farmhands and people of color. This subject matter of social commentary in the body of work of Cárdenas has not been fully researched, and deserves to be recognized.
Ramón Cernuda
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