Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Agustin Fernandez (Cuban, 1928-2006)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1992
Materials:  oil on canvas
Dimensions (H, W, D): 50"h, 34"w; 54.75"h, 39"w frame
Additional Information: Work is titled "Naturaleza Muerta." Provenance: Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami/Coral Gables, Florida | Abarrategui, Miami, Florida. Lot is accompanied by a copy of the Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist on Gary Nader Fine Art letterhead, dated 7.23.1993 and a copy of the confirmation of delivery to buyer, issued by Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, Florida, dated 7.23.1994.

"Agustin Fernandez came into contact with late Surrealism while studying on a scholarship in Europe, and he began to explore increasingly visceral and obsessively erotic subjects. After many years working primarily in black and white, his later paintings reintroduced color and incorporated motifs such as armors, belts, butterflies, snakes and femmes-oiseaux, all with underlying psychosexual innuendo. He began a new series of sculptural objects in the 1990s, reprising earlier experiments with the Surrealist 'found objects' from the mid-1960s. In 1992 he completed his unpublished memoirs, in which he wrote at length about his friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe. Fernandez received a CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in 1978." (source: Arts of the Americas essay)

very good, minor signs of age to surface (condition of art only)

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