Fuego en el batey is one of the three masterpieces from a brief series of paintings in Duco that he painted in Cuba in 1943 (estimate: $1-2 million).ĭuco is a quick drying line of lacquers made especially for the automotive industry which allows an artist to work at great speed and build sucessive layers of color. Its reappearance is of invaluable importance to Cuban Art collectors and scholars and we are thrilled to present this masterpiece - a rare opportunity indeed.īorn in the city of Havana, Mario Carreño (1913-1999) is considered a leading member of the second generation of modernist painters of Cuba. It has achieved an iconic stature over time as a key missing link in the scholarship of one of Cubas most accomplished artists. ![]() Virgilio Garza, Head of Latin American Art states, ∿uego en el Batey by Carreño is a rare masterpiece that blends subject and form magnificently. Never published in color and out of public view for all those years, Mario Carreños Fuego en el batey appears now along with two other unpublished and unknown works by the artist and his contemporary René Portocarrero. ![]() ![]() Widely regarded as a lost masterpiece of Cuban modernism, the painting has been in the Collection of Milton and Nona Ward in Baldwin, New York for over half a century. NEW YORK.- Christies announced a rediscovered painting by Mario Carreño, entitled Fuego en el batey (Fire in the farm) from 1943, will lead the Latin American Sale on May 28.
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