1970 Cuban Cundo Bermúdez Serigraph La Virgen De La Caridad Del Cobre, 62/150

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1970 Cuban Cundo Bermúdez Serigraph La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, 62/150

Offered for sale is an original and … more 1970 Cuban Cundo Bermúdez Serigraph La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, 62/150

Offered for sale is an original and rare 1970 serigraph by the Cuban artist Cundo Bermúdez of the Cuban La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre. This virgin was especially important to the Cuban people who fled Castro by water during the period. The serigraph is pencil numbered in the margins 62/150, titled Serigraph in the center, and signed and dated 70 in the lower right margin.
The print is in as-found condition with the original 1970s period matting and framing. The glass has tiny bubbles. There are some marks under the glass to the left side of the print as shown. We believe these are on the glass. There are 3 places where there are imperfections in the paper as shown. This was from the home of a couple who were Cuban art collectors and were the original owners. This serigraph is quite rare and extremely difficult to acquire.

Art by sight, 21.5"W by 32"H.
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This serigraph is in the permanent collection of the Art Museum of the Americas Collection

Born in Havana, Secundino Bermúdez y Delgado, known as Cundo Bermúdez was a Cuban artist who produced most of his work through painting, drawing, and lithography. He took courses at the San Alejandro Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, but graduated with a degree in diplomatic and consular law from Universidad de La Habana. He briefly attended the San Carlos Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico in the 1930s, which gave him the opportunity to see the work of the Mexican muralist movement first-hand. In 1962 he began living outside Cuba, first in Washington, D.C. and later in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he lived for almost three decades before moving to Miami in 1996. Cundo Bermúdez was one of the most renowned artists of the Cuban vanguard art scene of the thirties and forties, which broke away from the academic tradition and developed modern pictorial languages within an intellectual environment that was looking at Cubanness and national identity. His work thus involves popular characters, domestic scenes, and everyday situations through pictorial treatment that is characterized by the appropriation of elements from the Parisian and the post-revolutionary Mexican vanguard. In the fifties, his work veered toward more abstract painting at times, with symbolic elements of surrealism, but without abandoning models alluding to Cuban culture. Bermúdez participated in the Modern Cuban Painters exhibition that took place at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1944, an exhibition that firmly introduced Cuban artists to the United States and served to broaden views on Latin American modern art.

Secundino Bermúdez y Delgado, conocido como Cundo Bermúdez, fue un artista cubano que desarrolló su trabajo principalmente en pintura, dibujo y grabado. Cursó estudios en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de San Alejandro, pero se tituló en Derecho Diplomático en la Universidad de La Habana. Realizó una corta estancia en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de San Carlos en México, en los años treinta, experiencia que le permitió conocer de primera mano los trabajos del movimiento muralista mexicano. A partir de 1962 residió fuera de Cuba, primero en Washington y luego en San Juan de Puerto Rico. Allí vivió durante casi tres décadas hasta que, en 1996, decidió radicarse en Miami. Cundo Bermúdez ha sido reconocido como uno de los artistas más representativos de la escena artística de vanguardia de los años treinta y cuarenta en Cuba, escena que estableció una ruptura con la tradición académica y que desarrolló lenguajes pictóricos modernos en un ambiente intelectual que indagaba sobre la cubanidad y la identidad nacional. Así entonces, su obra involucra personajes populares, escenas domésticas y situaciones cotidianas mediante un tratamiento pictórico que se caracteriza por la apropiación de aportes de la vanguardia parisina y de la vanguardia mexicana posrevolucionaria. En los años cincuenta su trabajo se orientó hacia una pintura más abstraccionista, en ocasiones, con elementos simbólicos del surrealismo, sin abandonar los referentes alusivos a la cultura cubana. Bermúdez participó en la exposición Modern Cuban Painters, realizada en el Museum of Modern Art de Nueva York en 1944, una exposición que introdujo decididamente a los artistas cubanos en el contexto de los Estados Unidos y que sirvió para ampliar las visiones sobre el arte moderno de América Latina. less