1960s Rene Portocarrero Print of a Portrait of a Woman Titled "Flora", Framed W/Glass

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Rene Portocarrero Print of a Portrait of a Woman Titled "Flora", Framed w/Glass

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Offered for sale is a Rene Portocarrero (1912-1985) print of a portrait of a woman titled "Flora". This print is nicely framed under glass with a silver leaf frame and linen mat board. It is wired and ready to hang.

René Portocarrero (24 February 1912 – 7 April 1985) was a Cuban visual artist known for paintings, murals, ceramics, and works on paper. He is associated with Cuban modernism and the second generation of the Cuban vanguardia. His work was shown internationally, including in the landmark 1944 exhibition Modern Cuban Painters at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Portocarrero was born in the El Cerro district of Havana. He attended the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts but did not complete formal training and is frequently described as largely self-taught.

His first solo exhibition was held at the Lyceum of Havana in 1934. According to El País, Portocarrero first exhibited outside Cuba in 1945 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. He was among the artists included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1944 exhibition Modern Cuban Painters, an early major U.S. presentation of modern Cuban art.

By the early 1940s he developed a series that became central to his reputation, including Interiores del Cerro (1943) and other bodies of work that drew on Cuban interiors, popular festivities, and ornamental form.

In 1951 he received Cuba’s National Painting Prize for Homenaje a Trinidad, which the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes describes as a precursor to later Havana-themed landscapes.

A major retrospective opened in December 1984 at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid), drawing on collections from Cuba’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; it remained on view into early 1985.

Dimensions: Height: 26.25 in (66.68 cm)
Width: 19.13 in (48.6 cm)
Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm) See less