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Artist or Maker: Mario Carreño (1913-1999)

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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

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

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Notes: Mario Carreño (1913-1999)
Ingenio azucarero
signed 'Karreño' (lower right) and dated 'Mayo 1933' (on the center)
oil on board
47 7/8 x 47 1/2 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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