Lot 165

Framed Oil on Masonite signed WILFREDO ARCAY Cuban lower left

Estimate: $4,000 - $8,000

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Framed Oil on Masonite signed WILFREDO ARCAY OCHANDARENA Cuban (Havana, 1925- Paris, 1997). 
Wilfredo Arcay was one of the referents of the Cuban school, managing to place his artistic production in the international market, and making Cuban painting stop being ascribed to a localist school, which followed the influences of other more valued schools of the time. To this end, he reinterpreted various artistic currents such as Cubism and Neo-Plasticism, adding his own personal idiosyncrasy, as well as the influence of the color and light of his native country. In this particular work, through the use of color, the work offers the spectator a new vitalist language, these flat, intense and bright tones are combined with a superimposition of geometric shapes with sober and simple lines. Their harmonization with the color used by the artist brings great dynamism and expressiveness to the piece.
Hailed by Jean Arp as "the perfection of the Cuban Cubists", Arcay emerged among the post-war generation of the School of Paris as a painter, muralist and engraver. Arcay, born in Cuba and trained at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana, came to Paris on a scholarship in 1949. He quickly assimilated into the milieu of post-cubist abstraction, studying with Edgard Pillet and Jean Dewasne in their Abstract art workshop.

DIMENSIONS with frame: Height 23 inch / 58,5 cm
                                            Length 27.75 inch / 70,5 cm
DIMENSIONS without frame: Height 14.60 inch / 37 cm
                                                 Length 19.30 inch / 49 cm

 

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