Alfredo Sosabravo

Signed original screenprint on canvas limited edition Cuban art

2001

Alfredo Sosabravo (Cuba, 1930) 'Viejo pescador', 2001 silkscreen on canvas 28.8 x 37.1 in. (73 x 94 cm.) Edition of 75 ID: SOS1289-005-075 Unframed ______________________________________ Manuel Alfredo Sosabravo  Born: 1930, Sagua la Grande, Matanzas, Cuba.  Studies: Between 1955-1957 he studied at the Elementary School of Applied Plastic Arts attached to the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, in Havana, Cuba.  Experience: Member of the Association of Cuban Recorders and teaches several drawing and engraving courses at the National School of Art Instructors. In 1965 he entered the Graphic Experimental Workshop of Havana. In 1993 he teaches a mural ceramic course at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, working in turn at the Giuseppe Mazzotti Museum House 1903 in Albissola Mare, Italy.  Exhibitions: It is included in the 1959 annual Salon, Palace of Fine Arts, Havana. He made the first personal exhibition of importance in 1967 with oil-collages and ceramics in the Havana gallery. In 1973 he placed on the mezzanine floor of the Habana Libre Hotel a mural composed of 555 pieces of ceramics started since 1971. In 1997 he presented Sosabravo, The Guardian of the Small, in the Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain. In 2001 he exhibited graphic and painting works in El Comune de Orvieto Italia, in the Sala Conca de la Laguna, Tenerife and at the Feria de la Estampa in Madrid. In Cuba, he built the 10 m2 mural called Carnaval de la Habana for the Residencial América real estate. In 2002, Galería Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, shows his works at the Art Miami Fair. In the United Kingdom he exhibited Murano glass oil paintings and sculptures. The Biennale di Ceramica nell'Arte Contemporary of Albissola Mare, Savona, invited him to participate with works that he would carry out in the San Giorgio da Poggi workshop. In 2003 his work was part of the Important Cuban Artworks...

"Nelson Dominguez (Cuba, 1947) 'Sin título I', 2005 silkscreen on paper 27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.) Edition of 99 ID: DOM1267-007-106" _______________________________________ "Biography. Nelson DOMÍNGUEZ.  Born: 1947, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Studies: 1970 National School of Art, Cuba. Experience: 1970 - 1985 Professor National School of Art, Cuba. He has been Professor of Painting and Engraving and Head of the Painting Department of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Member of the Union of Writers of Cuba and the International Association of Plastic Artists. Awards: Among the awards and recognitions that the Cuban artist received: Order for the National Culture, Cuba; Order Alejo Carpentier, Cuba; Diploma and Order of Honor from the Fuji Museum, Japan. In 1972, he received the National Prize at the International Painting Festival in Cagnes-sur-mer, France; 1976 Grand Prize, International Biennial of Wood Engraving, Banska Bystrika, Czechoslovakia and Painting Prize, Triennial of Committed Realist Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Honor Prize, Graphic Biennial, India, as well as at the Jaime Guasch Biennial in Barcelona, Spain. Exhibitions In summary, exhibitions of personalities. In 1983 he made the exhibition ""Retrospective (10 years of professional work)"" at the National Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts of Cuba, in 1984 at the Francoise Tournie Gallery in Paris; in 1985 he did it in the National Welfare Organization of Athens, Greece and in 1986 in the Gallery del l 'Incisione in Venice, Italy. During the eighties and nineties his work was shown in Brazil, Italy, Puerto Rico, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the United States, Cuba and Mexico. In 2001, an individual exhibition was held at the Hotel Trip Cayo Coco in Cuba. Collections: Many of his works are exhibited in the Los Oficios Studio Gallery, Old Havana, Cuba and in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, Merugo Museum of Japan; Herbeat F. Johnson Museum of Art of the United States; The Presidential House, Los Pinos, of Mexico; Alejo Carpentier Foundation and José Martí Memorial Collection, Havana, Cuba; Collection Imperial Palace of Japan; Center for Cuban Studies in New York; Julio Cortázar...

Very Interesting and unique late 20th-century Cuban Abstract scene. Signed top left and inscribed on the reverse the piece has a great impact and presents. Influenced by Picasso with the Bull...

Abstract Blue Square Rolando de Juan, Argentine (1931–1989) Date: 1971 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 120 Size: 30 in. x 23 in. (76.2 cm x 58.42 cm)