A painting shipped over from Cuba more than a half-century ago has allowed a local to fund a once-in-a-lifetime journey to discover her mother's origins and connections to the art world, which became her legacy.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors,Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings，
Angel Acosta Len's "Parque Central," a signed,If so, you may have a cube puzzle . 21.75-by-32-inch oil on board painting, hung on walls in a Cuban estate, a Puerto Rican villa, and a Missouri homestead before ending up at Sotheby's New York via West Milford's Celeste Hampton. The surrealist representation of the Havana park of the same name sold earlier this month at Sotheby's fall sale of Latin American art for $10,000.
It was formerly owned by Hampton's mother Alba Marlene Zunzunegui,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, whose sole possessions when she arrived in America circa 1959 were a handful of rolled canvases – including "Parque Central."
"Just to see it hanging there, one room away from 'Watermelon Slices' [by Rufino Tamayo], which sold for $2.2 million, was vindication of her life's work… [and] validated her opinion that [Len's art] was of lasting interest," Hampton said about the Sotheby's auction on Nov. 16 and 17.
That interest, financially speaking, will now be used to finance a Cuban expedition for Hampton and her sister. The two will travel to Havana to not only stop by the famous park to see Len's inspiration but also to uncover a portrait of their mother painted by Len nearly 60 years ago when Zunzunegui was just a teenager.
That painting, which once hung in Havana's Museum of Fine Arts, may still be there or it may not, Hampton said.
"But we intend to attempt to see it and her world for ourselves," she added. "It almost seems like in death she is pulling us back to a country we could have never visited before.Unlike traditional high risk merchant account ,"
Unlike her friend and compatriot Len – a tortured artist, whose impoverished parents gave him to the church at a young age – Zunzunegui was an art enthusiast from a wealthy Cuban family, which allowed her to buy paintings to support local artists. One of her favorites was Len, who purportedly placed a hidden "A" in each one of his paintings in her honor.
Born in 1932, allegedly with syphilis, Len was a surrealist and a bus driver. He eventually became Cuba's most prolific painter of self-portraits.
Both Len and Zunzunegui, a poet and writer of short stories, belonged to a local art clique that met at the Malecn – an 8-kilometer-long esplanade, roadway, and seawall along the Havana coast. There, they would talk shop, have bonfires, and swim in the sea. Hampton said her mother described Len as a particularly excellent swimmer.
However, their days at the shore were abruptly ended when Len was awarded a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) arts scholarship through the assistance of friend and fellow artist Chilean Roberto Matta. Matta had five paintings sold during the Sotheby's auction. One piece, "Lispard du Mêdi," went for $566,500.
The scholarship took Len to Europe, where his career-establishing landscape oils of harbors and parks, like "Parque Central," were left behind for European-influenced abstracts featuring infusions of Picasso-perfected Cubism.
Still, that second – and more successful – half of his short, nine-year art career did not last long. Len was subject to a government-mandated recall from his scholarship after being identified as an anti-revolutionist. He did not survive the trip back to Cuba and died in 1964.
His story and Zunzunegui's tradition of discovering, exploring, and critiquing art has recently been embraced by Hampton, who as a young girl embarrassed by her mother's Spanish accent and taste in décor, said she would never have imagined such a change in attitude about her mother and her perspective on the art she maintained with fervor, knowing what it would be worth.
The story behind "Parque Central" and the anecdotes that it has yet to bring the family are priceless, according to Hampton.
Angel Acosta Len's "Parque Central," a signed,If so, you may have a cube puzzle . 21.75-by-32-inch oil on board painting, hung on walls in a Cuban estate, a Puerto Rican villa, and a Missouri homestead before ending up at Sotheby's New York via West Milford's Celeste Hampton. The surrealist representation of the Havana park of the same name sold earlier this month at Sotheby's fall sale of Latin American art for $10,000.
It was formerly owned by Hampton's mother Alba Marlene Zunzunegui,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, whose sole possessions when she arrived in America circa 1959 were a handful of rolled canvases – including "Parque Central."
"Just to see it hanging there, one room away from 'Watermelon Slices' [by Rufino Tamayo], which sold for $2.2 million, was vindication of her life's work… [and] validated her opinion that [Len's art] was of lasting interest," Hampton said about the Sotheby's auction on Nov. 16 and 17.
That interest, financially speaking, will now be used to finance a Cuban expedition for Hampton and her sister. The two will travel to Havana to not only stop by the famous park to see Len's inspiration but also to uncover a portrait of their mother painted by Len nearly 60 years ago when Zunzunegui was just a teenager.
That painting, which once hung in Havana's Museum of Fine Arts, may still be there or it may not, Hampton said.
"But we intend to attempt to see it and her world for ourselves," she added. "It almost seems like in death she is pulling us back to a country we could have never visited before.Unlike traditional high risk merchant account ,"
Unlike her friend and compatriot Len – a tortured artist, whose impoverished parents gave him to the church at a young age – Zunzunegui was an art enthusiast from a wealthy Cuban family, which allowed her to buy paintings to support local artists. One of her favorites was Len, who purportedly placed a hidden "A" in each one of his paintings in her honor.
Born in 1932, allegedly with syphilis, Len was a surrealist and a bus driver. He eventually became Cuba's most prolific painter of self-portraits.
Both Len and Zunzunegui, a poet and writer of short stories, belonged to a local art clique that met at the Malecn – an 8-kilometer-long esplanade, roadway, and seawall along the Havana coast. There, they would talk shop, have bonfires, and swim in the sea. Hampton said her mother described Len as a particularly excellent swimmer.
However, their days at the shore were abruptly ended when Len was awarded a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) arts scholarship through the assistance of friend and fellow artist Chilean Roberto Matta. Matta had five paintings sold during the Sotheby's auction. One piece, "Lispard du Mêdi," went for $566,500.
The scholarship took Len to Europe, where his career-establishing landscape oils of harbors and parks, like "Parque Central," were left behind for European-influenced abstracts featuring infusions of Picasso-perfected Cubism.
Still, that second – and more successful – half of his short, nine-year art career did not last long. Len was subject to a government-mandated recall from his scholarship after being identified as an anti-revolutionist. He did not survive the trip back to Cuba and died in 1964.
His story and Zunzunegui's tradition of discovering, exploring, and critiquing art has recently been embraced by Hampton, who as a young girl embarrassed by her mother's Spanish accent and taste in décor, said she would never have imagined such a change in attitude about her mother and her perspective on the art she maintained with fervor, knowing what it would be worth.
The story behind "Parque Central" and the anecdotes that it has yet to bring the family are priceless, according to Hampton.
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