Antonio Gattorno (1904 - 1980) Cuban
Oil on Canvas
Measure 40"in H x 30"in W and 54"in H x 44"in W with frame
The piece has a certificate and opinion of market value by Frank Padron (curator of Gattorno)

Known for: Surrealism, modern primitive, mural
Biography: Antonio Gattorno was the first Cuban artist of his generation to achieve an international reputation as a universal contemporary that transcended his ethnicity. He is indisputably the founder of Cuba's Modernist Movement, yet he is also one of the most underrated major painters of the 20th Century. Gattorno was born in Havana, Cuba on March 15, 1904. In 1919, his third year as a painting student at the Academy of San Alejandro in Havana, he won a five-year scholarship to study in Europe. He remained there for seven years, traveling throughout Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and Germany. He became friends and worked with Felice Carena, Georges Roualt and Jules Pascin. He shared studios in Paris, France and in Florence, Italy with the Cuban sculptor Juan Jose Sicre. When Gattorno returned to Cuba in 1927, he had developed a personal esthetic influenced by sources as diverse as Mannerism, Social Realism and the modern primitivism of Gaugin. There was much resentment against Gattorno on the part of the Cuban intelligentsia as a result of his move to the U.S. Following his creative move into his own style of Surrealism there were persistent accusations that Gattorno had abandoned his place as an artistic leader. His detractors claimed he had betrayed his Cuban heritage by deciding to explore themes that seemed less concerned with establishing some sort of national identity for his homeland than had his earlier work. During this time many important pieces of personal and professional ephemera such as diaries, letters, inventories, records of exhibits and sales, were lost or destroyed. Gattorno is the type of obscure yet important painter that art professionals dream of discovering: a hidden master with an impressive provenance. Due to their current obscurity his works are as fresh as the day they were made. Because of the singular vision and incredible skill of their creator they are as important as any of the great works of art, which have attained recognition as masterworks of the 20th Century.

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