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René PortocarreroRene Portocarrero 1961
1961
About the Item
Artist: Rene Portocarrero, Cuban (1912 - 1985)
Title: Ciudad de la Habana, 1961
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 34 x 24 inches
Provenance:
Private Cuban Collection in South Florida. The Cuban collector purchased this painting directly from Rene Portocarrero in 1961. The painting was sealed by Cuban Diplomatic Mail Customs on verso in order enter the United States.
Artist Bio:
Rene Portocarrero was noted for highly colorful, abstract paintings. Portocarrero began his artistic education at the San Alejandro Academy but left early and is hence considered 'self-taught'. As well as a painter and sculptor, he worked as a ceramicist, scenic designer and book illustrator, publishing his own Las Máscaras (The Masks) in 1935 and El Sueño (The Dream) in 1939. He was also a muralist, producing public artworks for the Havana Prison, a church in Bauta, Cuba, the Cuban National Hospital, the Cuban National Theatre and the Hotel Tryp Habana Libre. His artworks form part of the permanent collections of galleries in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Peru, France, the United States (Museums of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, Milwaukee Art Center; Union Panamericana, Washington), Uruguay and Venezuela as well as his native Cuba (Museo Nacional, Havana). He put on his first exhibition in 1934, at the Havana Lyceum, beginning a long and fruitful career which included a 1937 collaboration with Mariano Rodríguez and work as a 'free studies' teacher of painting and sculpture. After travels in Haiti, Europe and the United States, he gave his first show to an overseas audience at Julien Levy’s gallery in New York City in 1945.
- Creator:René Portocarrero (1912-1985, Cuban)
- Creation Year:1961
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 34.5 in (87.63 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:24 x 34 Price: $28,000
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- Gallery Location:Saint Augustine, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1363213951602
René Portocarrero
René Portocarrero created abstracted, polychrome paintings of the religious and cultural practices and architecture of Cuba as well as portraits of Cuban women. A key figure in the second generation of Vanguardia artists in Cuba, his work was exhibited alongside Cundo Bermúdez, Mario Carreño, and Amelia Peláez in the landmark Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Modern Cuban Painters” in 1944. He was awarded the International Samba Prize at the 1963 São Paulo Bienal and was featured in the 1966 Venice Biennale. Portocarrero displayed his artistic talent at a young age; although he spent a brief period studying at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts he was mostly self-taught. Known for his use of horror vacui, Portocarrero delineated space via deliberate linework. Later in his career, the artist’s interest in geometric forms led him increasingly towards abstraction. Beginning in the mid–the 1950s, he produced a series of imagined cityscapes based on Havana’s eclectic architecture.
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