Ingenio azucarero

Details

Mario Carreño (1913-1999)
Ingenio azucarero
signé 'Karreño' (en bas à droite) et daté 'Mayo 1933' (au centre)
huile sur carton
122 x 120,7 cm. (47 7/8 x 47½ in.)
Peint vers 1933

Provenance

Collection Sara Hernández, La Havana
Collection Rigoberto Cárdenas Gómez, Miami
Vente anonyme, Christie's, New York, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 15 mai 1996, lot 29 (illustré en couleur)
Collection privée, New York

Literature

A. Aguilar, Karreño, Un Gran Artista de 20 Años, Orbe, La Habana, 1933

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Mario Carreño (1913-1999)
Ingenio azucarero
signed 'Karreño' (lower right) and dated 'Mayo 1933' (on the center)
oil on board
47 7/8 x 47½ in. (122 x 120.7 cm.)
Painted ca. 1933

"As Cuban, you pour a lot of sugar. Don't forget that the first thing an artist should do is to scare the public." Picasso, after visiting an exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris on April 24th, 1939. Mario Carreño: Cronología del recuerdo, Editorial Antártica, 1991, p. 38

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