Abstract painting by Cuban artist Samuel Feijoo.
Media: Oil based pigments on burlap.
Title: Unititled (abstraction)
Date:1960s
Measurements: 40.5" x 36.5" x 1.25" overall including strip framing.
Notes: Housed in a simple strip frame. Signed and dated lower right.
Provenance: from a Northern California antique shop.
About the artist: Samuel Feijoo (1914-1992) was born in San Juan de las Yeras, Las Villas, Cuba in 1914. Feijoo was a known poet, novelist, folklore researcher, and painter and draftsman. Feijoo published many of his drawings in the several magazines he founded, However, Feijoo, for most of his life, chose to remain outside of the professional art circles. He seldomly showed his works in gallery shows outside of the 1960s in Havana. The subject of Feijoo's works are often forms from nature along with creatures of almost alien form. Feijoo was a good friend of famous French artist Jean Dubuffet, the founder of the Art Brut movement and champion of 'low art' in contrast to the tradition standard of beauty. Samuel Feijoo's unique aesthetics approach can be described as a defense of the deprived, the 'lower class' and especially the Cuban peasant, as well as his love for counter culture and Cuban folklore.

Good condition. Some minor discoloration in areas. Line of discoloration in the center, from the top of the painting to the bottom, possibly from moisture. Pigment is sound.