1951 Felipe Orlando Cuban Oil Painting "Bodegon", Signed and Dated

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1951 Felipe Orlando Cuban Oil Painting "Bodegon", Signed and Dated

Offered for sale is a rare oil painting on panel … more 1951 Felipe Orlando Cuban Oil Painting "Bodegon", Signed and Dated

Offered for sale is a rare oil painting on panel by the renowned Cuban artist Felipe Orlando (1911–2001) titled "Bodegon". The painting is signed on verso and dated Mexico 1951. "Bodegon" translates to "Still Life". This small colorful composition is framed with a simple black wood frame. The painting is in original as-found condition and would benefit from a good cleaning to bring some life to the colors and the composition. An anthropologist as well as a painter and engraver, Orlando, whose full name was Felipe Orlando Garcia Murciano, studied at the University of Havana and at the painting workshop of Jorge Arche and Víctor Manuel. He was a founding member of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Cuba (APEC) and a professor at the Universidad de las Américas and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, both in Mexico City.

His work was exhibited regularly in solo and group shows until 1995 and is in the permanent collections of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C.


Dimensions: Height: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)
Width: 11.75 in (29.85 cm)
Depth: 1.75 in (4.45 cm) less