Drawing and watercolor on paper, 1946, signed and dated at the lower right, matted in a giltwood frame under glass.

Sheet sight 13 x 7 in.; Frame dimensions 21 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.

From the Estate of the late Patricia J. Shaw, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Rene Portocarrero was a self-taught artist who worked in Havana as a noted painter, sculptor, illustrator, and muralist. He produced public artworks for the Havana Prison, the Cuban National Theatre, the Hotel Tryp Habana Libre, and others. His work was first exhibited in the Salon de Bellas Artes in Havana, and in 1934, he exhibited at the Havana Lyceum. In the late 1930's he became a professor of Fine Art. He traveled to paint in Haiti, Europe, and the United States, where, in 1945, he had an exhibition in the Julian Levy Gallery, in New York. Later, he worked for UNESCO and the AIAP and was offered a seat at UNESCO's International Association of Fine Art.

Portocarrero's works are part of the collections of the Museums of Modern Arts of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and San Francisco; the National Gallery in Canada; Bellas Artes, Caracas; the Milwaukee Art Center; the Union Panamericana, Washington; the Modern Arts of Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Museum, Indianapolis; Bellas Artes, Montevideo; Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru; and the Museo Nacional, Havana.

Good estate condition, not examined outside the frame.