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Mario Carreño 1913-1998 Cuban Ink on Paper

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Mario Carreño 1913-1998 Cuban Ink on Paper
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Ink on paper, cubist sketch. Signed and attr. Mario Carreño (Cuban, 1913-1988) on bottom right corner. 17 x 14 inch (43.2 x 35.6 cm). Considered a leading member of the second generation of Cuban modernist painters, Mario Carreño's pictorial production is vast and varied in techniques as well as styles. His stylistic phases can be easily divided into five periods: neo-classical (1937 to early 1943), Mexican muralist influence (mid 1943-1944), organic-geometric (1945-1952), hard-edge geometric (1952-1962), and from the mid 1960s until his death, a metaphysical synthesis of both his neo-classical and geometric concerns, where, in the artist's own words he explored "a petrified and silent world." PROVENANCE: Private collection, Toronto, ON