The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Mario Carreño
1913 - 1999
Ingenio azucarero
signed Karreño (lower right); dated Mayo 1933 (lower center)
oil on board
47 ⅞ by 47 ½ in.
122 by 120.7 cm.
Executed in May 1933.
Condition Report
Provenance
Sara Hernández Cata, Havana
Rigoberto Cárdenas Gómez, Miami
Christie's, New York, 15 May 1996, lot 29
Private Collection, New York
Christie's, Paris, 10 June 2004, lot 7
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Antonio Aguilar, Karreño, un gran artista de 20 años, Havana, 1933, illustrated in a photograph on the cover
Jesús Fernandez Torna, Mario Carreño. Selected Works (1936-1957), Miami, 2012, p. 41, illustrated in color