Attributed to Fidelio Ponce de Leon (1895-1949) Title: Tres Mujeres, Medium: Oil on canvas, Size: 21.50" H x 31.50" W (inches), Date: ca 1935s. This lot is accompanied by a Certificate of Attribution and is not a reproduction, it is a unique piece. We recommend that the buyer do their research before bidding on the lot. The sale of this lot is final. Cuban painter. Was born in 1895 in Camaguey, Cuba, Ponce attended the National School of San Alejandro, where he fell under the influence of Leopoldo Romanach. Ponce had an artist's temperament and refused to work on subjects that did not interest him. He disappeared from public record in 1918 but reappeared in 1923 in Havana, where he lived cheaply and gave art lessons to poor children. As part of the burgeoning Cuban vanguard movement in the 1930s, Ponce began to exhibit his works and won a prize at the national salon of 1935 for his painting Las beatas. Typical of Ponce's style are pale colors, a fascination with light, and melancholy reflection on the animalistic nature of the human race. Unfortunately, his work suffers from deterioration and age and has lost much of its original brilliance.

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