Felipe Orlando
Coronel Retirado y Su Amante Esposa (Cuban Artist)
ca. 1970

Name: Coronel Retirado y Su Amante Esposa (Cuban Artist)
Brand: Felipe Orlando
Price: 1500 USD
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About the Item

Felipe Orlando (Cuban-Mexican, 1911-2001). Coronel Retirado y su Amante Esposa, ca. 1970. Ink and gouache on paper with heavily built up layers of textured ground. Measures 13 1/4 x 18 3/8 inches. Signed lower left. Original label affixed on verso. Excellent condition. Unframed. An anthropologist as well as a painter and engraver, Orlando, whose full name was Felipe Orlando Garcia Murciano, studied at the University of Havana and at the painting workshop of Jorge Arche and Víctor Manuel. He was a founding member of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Cuba (APEC) and a professor at the Universidad de las Américas and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, both in Mexico City. His style is influenced by the Afro-Cuban movement and pre-columbian art. His work was exhibited regularly in solo and group shows until 1995 and is in the permanent collections of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C., among others. Orlando was the subject of various documentary films, including La pintura de Orlando, filmed in Mexico City in 1950, Wolf Hanke's Felipe Orlando, done for Germany's RTV and Felipe Orlando, for Mexico's Channel 5. His collection of pre-Columbian art formed the core of the Archeological museum at Benalmádena, Spain, of which he was honorary director since its creation in 1970 (Cintas for art, 1967-68)[CINTAS FOUNDATION]

Creator:

Felipe Orlando (1911 - 2001, Cuban)

Creation Year:

ca. 1970

Dimensions:

Height: 13.25 in (33.66 cm)Width: 18.38 in (46.69 cm)

Medium:

Ink,Gouache

Movement & Style:

Abstract

Period:

1970-1979