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Carlos AlfonzoGreen Ceramic Woman on a Plate, colorful, abstract1986
1986
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A plate with a green and yellow ceramic woman's body from waiter up attached on it.
Signed and dated verso.
Born in Havana in 1950, Alfonzo was exiled from Cuba after being deemed undesirable as a gay man. He left in July 1980 during the Mariel boatlift. Upon his arrival, Alfonzo settled in Miami where he lived and worked until his untimely death from AIDS-related complications in 1991. Leaving Cuba allowed him to embrace and explore his sexuality, and he was quickly embraced artistically in the United States. Alfonzo was a painter known for his vibrant neo-Impressionistic style, as Victor Barrenechea wrote, “He filled canvas after canvas with wildly energetic and anxiously expressive renderings of raw emotion, despair, and alienation.” After his death, Alfonzo’s work was included in the 1991 Whitney Biennial. A 1998 exhibition, Triumph of the Spirit: Carlos Alfonzo, A Survey, 1975 –1991 opened at the Miami Art Museum and then traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Alfonzo’s work is included in both collections. His work Ceremony of the Tropics, 1984-86 is on permanent view at Miami’s Santa Clara Metrorail Station.
Restoration of this work was conducted by Appelbaum & Himmelstein Conservation Lab, New York.
- Creator:Carlos Alfonzo (1950 - 1991, Cuban)
- Creation Year:1986
- Dimensions:Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU150827956622
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