Pair of framed Mixed media and collage on paper signed WILFREDO ARCAY OCHANDARENA Cuban (Havana, 1925- Paris, 1997). Both are signed and dated 1952. with COA
Wilfredo Arcay was one of the referents of the Cuban school, managing to place his artistic production in the international market, and making Cuban painting stop being ascribed to a localist school, which followed the influences of other more valued schools of the time. To this end, he reinterpreted various artistic currents such as Cubism and Neo-Plasticism, adding his own personal idiosyncrasy, as well as the influence of the color and light of his native country. In this particular work, through the use of color, the work offers the spectator a new vitalist language, these flat, intense and bright tones are combined with a superimposition of geometric shapes with sober and simple lines. Their harmonization with the color used by the artist brings great dynamism and expressiveness to the piece.
Hailed by Jean Arp as "the perfection of the Cuban Cubists", Arcay emerged among the post-war generation of the School of Paris as a painter, muralist and engraver. Arcay, born in Cuba and trained at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana, came to Paris on a scholarship in 1949. He quickly assimilated into the milieu of post-cubist abstraction, studying with Edgard Pillet and Jean Dewasne in their Abstract art workshop.
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DIMENSIONS with frame : Height 19 inch / 48,3 cm
Length 16 inch / 40,6 cm

DIMENSIONS with out frame: Height 11 inch / 28 cm
Length 8.50 inch / 21,5 cm

DIMENSIONS with frame : Height 19.30 inch / 49,2 cm
Length 16.50 inch / 42 cm

DIMENSIONS with out frame: Height 11 inch / 28 cm
Length 8.50 inch / 21,5 cm