Mario Carreno (1913 - 1999) Cuba
Ink on Paper
Measure 17"in H x 21"in W and 25 3/4"in H x 30"in W with frame

Known for: Abstract, modernist figure painting, illustration, murals.
Biography: A modernist figurative Latin-American painter and magazine illustrator, whose clients included House & Garden, Interiors and Norte, Mario Carreno was born in Havana but lived for extended periods of time in New York City and finally in Chile. He studied art in his native country at San Alejandro Academy; in Madrid, Spain beginning 1931 at the San Fernando School. There he met Pablo Neruda and his circle of intellectual friends including Federico Lorca and Rafael Alberti. To earn a living, he worked as a graphic designer, but those were tough times because of the impending Spanish Civil War. In 1935, he went to Mexico, where he worked with what he described as the "great muralists" including Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros and Jose Orozco. Influenced by these strong nationalists, he began injecting his own Latin American heritage into his artwork. He did landscape paintings including volcanoes and mountains, and did a series of female figures facing the sea, which were inspired by figureheads that Neruda kept in his coastal home.

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