Patronato de Artes Plásticas, Havana
Private Collection, Florida
Sotheby's, New York, November 15, 1994, lot 44
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Havana, Galería Lyceum, Mario Carreño, March 13–22, 1942, no. 4 (illustrated)
José Gomez Sicre, Cuadernos de la Plástica Cubana I. Mario Carreño, Havana, 1943, n.p. (illustrated)
Cuban • 1913 - 1999
Throughout his career, Mario Carreño produced a large body of diverse work ranging in style from Neo-Classical Figuration to Abstraction, and he is widely recognized as a key figure in Modern Cuban art. Carreño spent his formative years abroad, visiting Mexico in 1935 and later traveling throughout Europe in the 1940s. While in Europe, Carreño drew great inspiration from such contemporary avant-garde styles as Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
Like Amelia Peláez, Carlos Enrique and other second-generation Vanguardia artists, Carreño aimed to incorporate European Modernist style into his oeuvre while developing a nationalist visual lexicon. His seminal works from the '40s, including Fuego en el Batey, Corte de Caña and Danza Afrocubana are brilliantly colored Duco works that each represent an essential element of Cuban identity.
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