Private Collection 16’’ x 12 ‘’ this lot comes accompanied with a certificate, this is a unique piece, Mario Carreño was a Cuban-born Chilean painter known for his unique style of . which blends Cubist abstraction and surrealism with techniques seen in Mexican muralist paintings. Carreño was part of the second generation of Modern artists working in Cuba during the 20th century..Mario Carreño o y Morales was born in Havana, Cuba in May 1913. Attributed to Mario Carreño. He studied painting at the Academia de San Alejandro in Havana, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain; later, he attended the Ecole des Arts appliques as well as the Academie Julian in Paris, France. Later, Carreño o established residency in Santiago, Chile.Attributed to Mario Carreño.Carreño o gained critical attention with his inclusion in a number of prominent group exhibitions: in 1943, his work appeared in the MoMA New York’s The Latin American Collection; the following year, he appeared in MoMA Exhibitions of Modern Cuban Painters in 1951, he was selected for the Sao Paulo Biennial; and in 1952, he exhibited at the XXVI Venice Biennial. In 1956, Carreño received the Guggenheim International Award, followed by the National Prize of Art of Chile in 1982 and the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in 1987.Carreño died in Chile in December of 1999. Today, his work is owned by prominent institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

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