Cuba-MARIO CARREÑO Signed Watercolor W/Authenticity 1943 Piece W/ Authentication by Ida Gonzalez de Carreño Start Price USD 8,997.99 Current Price USD 8,997.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, May 08, 2008 End Time Sunday, May 18, 2008 Location SUNNY SOUTH FLORIDA See more about 'Cuba-MARIO CARREÑO Signed Watercolor W/Authenticity' Description ANTIQUES1796 Store Cuba-MARIO CARREÑO Signed Watercolor W/Authenticity STUNNING!!!!! ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR BY CUBA MASTER *MARIO CARREÑO* (1913-1999),THIS GORGEOUS! PIECE IS SIGNED AND DATED 1943 BY CARREÑO.THIS WATERCOLOR IS 100% ORIGINAL!,WE JUST RECIEVED  THE Authentication by Ida Gonzalez de Carreño from Chile,Ida Gonzalez de Carreño is the only authorized legal expert for the authentication of works by Mario Carreño.THIS PIECE IS FROM THE ESTATE OF Dr. Robert Gonzalo Phd.Please find enclosed pictures of the original DHL ENVELOPE DIRECTLY FROM Ida Gonzalez de Carreño From Chile to Dr. Robert Gonzalo with the pictureof the watercolor with her authentication and comments on the back.The authentication is in spanish and translated to english said: "I certified that the oeuvre (painting) in the picture is a watercolor done by Mario Carreño in the year 1943,measures 27.5 x 21.5 cm.The theme is a mother and her son next to a pedestal with a flower vase of opaline.It looks in a great state of preservation. signed:Ida Gonzalez de Carreño Stgo de Chile 2008" Ida Gonzalez de Carreño The widow of Mario Carreño one of the most celebrated and famous Cuban painters.Ida Gonzalez and Mario Carreño met in 1964 and spent the next 35 years together.  She lives in Chile, where Mario Carreño had settled a few years before they married.  She has an encompassing and intimate knowledge of his work, supported by the facts she is an art graduate, an art professor and a painter herself.  PLEASE FIND BELOW BIOGRAPHY OF THIS FAMOUS CUBAN PAINTER. Biography: Mario Carreño was born in Havana, Cuba, on June 24th, 1913. During the decade of the thirties, he starts studying at the San Alejandro Academy, and then travels to Madrid (1932) to study at the San Fernando School. In 1934 he meets Pablo Neruda and his circle of intelectual friends: Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Acario Cotapos and Manuel Altoaguirre, among others. Due to the Spanish Civil War he moves to Mexico, where he gets to meet that time´s most important muralists: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. That´s how the mural becomes part of his work, as well as sensing for the first time the importance of introducing Latin American identity to his art.Carreño continues his studies at Paris' Julien Academy, where he organizes his first exhibit, which gets the first good comments in France´s artist circle. Second World War motivates his moving to New York City, where he lives for more than a decade. Between 1951 and 1954 he goes back to Havana to work as a teacher. In 1958, the events around the Cuban Revolution decide Carreño to move to Chile, mainly because of his friendship with Neruda and Universidad de Chile´s invitation to give some Art Courses. His staying in Chile extends until his death, on December 20th, 1999. With the passing of time, Mario Carreño became a remarkable name in Chile´s cultural and artistic fields. He was not only involved in the foundation of Universidad Catolica´s School of Arts, but also to the teaching in several study centers and the creation of public works such as the murals at the San Ignacio School, the Casiño of Viña del Mar and Rancagua´s Hospital del Trabajador (1983).He exposed in several countries and his paintings are now part of the collection of the world´s most important museums and galleries, including New York´s MOMA, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Caracas Bellas Artes Museum, the Havana Museum, France´s Musée d'Art Moderne of Ceret, Argentina´s Museo de La Plata, Washington´s Latin American Museum of Modern Art and Miami´s Metropolitan Museum.Chile´s northern landscape was, for him, a constant motif. There are paintings such as "Aurora de volcanes" (Volcanoes´ Dusk), "Tierra de volcanes" (Volcanoes' Land) and "Silencio cordillerano" (Mountain Silence). He also made a series of paintings based on women that face the sea, and which were directly inspired by the figureheads that Pablo Neruda used to keep in his coastal house of Isla Negra. Mario Carreño never left his native caribbean spirit, working the exhuberant, the sensual and the warm tones.  ASK ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE BIDDING,WE WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS.WE PROVIDE A LOT OF PICTURES OF THE ITEM FOR YOUR INSPECTION.(***BUYERS TO PAID SHIPPING,H. & INSURANCE*** )**NO PAYPAL** ONLY CHECK OR MONEY ORDERS IN THE UNITED STATES,**FOR INTERNATIONAL SALES WE ONLY ACCEPT  BANK WIRE TRANSFER***WE FULLY INSURE ALL OUR PACKAGES SO ONCE IT LEAVES OUR HANDS WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLES FOR DAMAGES OCURRING DURING TRANSIT.*****ALL SALES ARE FINAL****** ** A REMINDER TO OUR EUROPEAN FRIENDS THAT DUE TO THE EXTRAORDINARY!! 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