Pedro de Oraa (1931-2020) Oil on wood board, signed lower mid "ORAA", untitled, measures 18.5 x 21 7/8 and 31 3/4 x 17 inches w/ frame.. Oraa was a Cuban contemporary visual artist, best known for his contributions to the Cuban abstract movement of Concretism in the 1950s and his involvement in the group Los Once (the eleven) in 1956 and the co-founding of Los Diez Pintores Concretos (The 10 Concrete Painters) known simply as, Los Diez with fellow artists Loló Soldevilla and Sandú Daríe, in 1957. He was an art critic, poet, designer, translator, and the beneficiary of many awards such as the Distinction for National Culture in 1995, the National Book Design Prize in 2011 and the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 2015.

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