José María Mijares Stylized Figural Oil Painting from "Habaneras" Series, 1997

Item Details

José María Mijares (Cuban, 1921 – 2004)
Untitled, 1997
Oil on canvas
Signed to lower right
Authenticated by Maria A. Cabrera de Mijares from Mijares Art Gallery, 2024

’Listed Master artist Jose Maria Mijares Fernandez began his artistic studies in 1936 at the (San Alejandro National School of Fine Art) in Havana, Cuba, is the oldest, and most prestigious fine arts school in Cuba. It is located in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. It was founded in 1818 at the Convent of San Alejandro by the French artist and painter Jean Baptist Vermay, who was its first director. It is located today in a monumental building built in the early 1940s.

At the San Alejandro National School of Fine Art, Mijares professors included: artist Romanach, Menocal, Valderrama, Ramon Loy and Caravia, among others. Jose Mijares credits one of his most influential professors, artist Ponce with helping him develop his own style of expression. Jose Mijares left Cuba but Cuba never left Mijares. ‘In my subconscious there is an inner landscape that is Cuba. Since I was exiled at an older age that landscape cannot be erased.’ Mijares stated in an interview in 2001 ‘Indeed, the images of my native country, blossomed frequently, on my canvases’.

Jose Mijares is world renowned for his mastery of oil painting and his pioneering exploration of geometric abstraction in Cuban art of the 1950’s; which let to his neo-baroque compositions developed during his exile period out of Cuba. Mijares influential career placed him in the group of Master artist like Carlos Enríquez, René Portocarrero and Cundo Bermúdez.’

-lagaleriafineart.com

Condition

- some abrasions, accretion and paint loss throughout; foxing to verso.

Dimensions

- measurement of frame.

Item #

ITMGN99720