Description

Cuban American contemporary visual artist, Jose Mijares a painting depicting a surrealist woman with an abstract attachment hanging over head. The work created probably in the late 60s early 70s using gouache on art paper with acru, terracota, red, green, black on a soft dark blue background colors. Newly frame with museum acid free board and mat in a wood black frame.

Signed lower right mijares

Measurements: FRAME – 29 inches high x 23 inches wide x 1 1/4 inch deep – SIGHT – 17 inches high x 11 inches wide

Condition: Very Good, no issues for art & frame.

 Jose Maria Mijares (1921, Havana – 2004, Miami).  At 16 years old, he enters San Alejandro School of Art to begin his artistic studies and is taught by Master Cuban painters of the time, Romañach,  Menocal.  Mijares  was influenced by the next generation of  Modern Cuban artists from the “Havana School”:  Cundo Bermudez, Carlos Enrique, Rene Portacarrero but the major contributer to his art form was modernist Fidelio Ponce. Mijares settled in Miami in 1968 where he passed on in 2004.