Tuesday, May 31, 2011

This fine painting, or at least a print of this fine painting, now hangs on my wall as a souvenir of Cuba.

The original hangs in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana where there is a magnificent collection of Cuban art from the conquest to the present day. It is the work of Mario CarreƱo whose pictures have sold for millions. My investment in his work was more modest. I spent substantially more on getting it framed, 13 times more in fact.

If your Spanish is up to it you can read about him here, or if not just enjoy the pictures of which there are a dozen or so. If you like them you can order copies in oils from this site where there is a bit of biog in broken English. They it seems will copy anything you like so a Titian in the toilet is within reach of us all.

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