Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Antonio Ferrer Cabello - Featured pieces in The Flores Carbonell Collection

Here is a selection of artworks by Antonio Ferrer Cabello featured in The Flores Carbonell Collection:

  

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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Campina Watercolor 1935
Signed Nico Ferrer, done very early in his career before he started
signing his trademark Ferrer-Cabello Signature.


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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Study for a Nude - Watercolor 1957
A Beautiful example of Ferrer Cabellos mastery with the human figure.


Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Desnudo Masculino - Watercolor - 30cmx23cm


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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Study for a Nude - Watercolor 1999
Another Beautiful example of Ferrer Cabellos mastery of the human figure.


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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Aguadores - Watercolor
Featuring the Coast of Santiago de Cuba


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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Alameda - Watercolor
Features a countryside scene of Santiago de Cuba


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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Bambooes - Watercolor
Features a bamboo field in Cuba.



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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Sugarcane Field Worker
Oil on Canvas mounted on Board.
Unsigned Piece
 

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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Campina - Oil on Board
Fabulous Piece featuring the Santiago de Cuba
country side, with its trademark Ferrer Cabello red signature. 



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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Boatslip - Watercolor
Black and White watercolor of a shipyard scene.


Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Canero - 17x11 cm - In on Heavy Paper - 1990

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Bosque - Watercolor - 18.5cmx27.5cm - 1963

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
"Autorretrato" Watercolor on Heavy Paper

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
"Flores" Oil on Canvas

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Paisaje de Playa - 28x37.5cm - 1993

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Palmar 1 - Ink on Board - 1990

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Palmar 2 - Ink on Board - 199

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Santa Lucia y Corona - Ink on Board - 1996

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Troncos - Ink on Board - 1965

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Rumba - Watercolor - 27cmx27cm - 2002


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Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Rumbero - Carnival Dancer - Watercolor
Large Sized Watercolor



Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Juragua - Watercolor
Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Caballo - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Paisaje - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
La Zafra - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
La Poceta - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
La Nana - Graphite on Paper

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
La Dama - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
El Triste Desalojo - Watercolor and Ink on Paper

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Flamboyan - Oil on Board

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Framboyan - Ink on Paper

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
 Techos Santiagueros - Watercolor
Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Fumador de Tabaco - Oil on Board


Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Guajiro - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
El Contento - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
El Negrito - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Desalojo en Marcha - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Carniceria - Ink on Board

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Carnaval - Watercolor
Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Rostro Masculino - Watercolor
Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Paisaje Campestre - Oil on Board

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Paisaje Campestre - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Paisaje Playero - Oil on Canvas

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Remanso - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Santiago - Watercolor

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Troncos - Oil on Board

Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Troncos - Watercolor




Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Museo Provincial Emilio Bacardí Moreau - Santiago de Cuba

Emilio Bacardi Museum

The Museo Provincial Emilio Bacardí Moreau is located in the historical centre of Santiago de Cuba. It stands out due to its eclectic façade decorated with neo-classical elements and designed by the architect Carlos Segrera.

The museum is a public institution founded by Emilio Bacardí Moreau on the 12th February 1899. The museum was located in several different buildings (including the house of its founder) before it was inaugurated in its present headquarters with the backing of Bacardí’s widow Elvira Cape Lombard. The museum bears the name of its prestigious intellectual and founder and its establishment heralded one of the most important socio-cultural events in the city.

The museum has been directed by local artists and intellectuals such as José Bofill Cayol, Fernando Boytel Jambú and Antonio Ferrer Cabello. Its aim is to care for, conserve and enrich its collections for the enjoyment of present and future generations so that they may learn about history and their ancestors and look upon them with gratitude and love.

  
Antonio Ferrer Cabello
Antonio Ferrer Cabello
 
Fernando Boytel JambúJose Bofill Cayol
Jose Bofill Cayol


Review by: Frommer's Review

Begun by Emilio Bacardí, the founder of the political and rum dynasty in 1899, this highly personal collection constituted one of the first museums in Cuba. Now a provincial museum, it remains an eclectic art and historical assembly. The grand, gleaming white neoclassical building was erected in 1928 to house the idiosyncratic collection. On the first floor is a wide variety of artifacts documenting indigenous peoples, slavery, and the wars of independence, including an extensive array of armaments and a peculiar coffin-shaped torpedo used by the Mambíses. Bacardí also collected personal items belonging to Cuban national heroes, including those of Antonio Maceo and Carlos Manuel Céspedes. Don't miss the tiny stage set of a colonial Santiago street (through a door on the south side of the first floor). In an annex, which must be entered from a side door on Calle Aguilera, is an archaeology room holding an Egyptian mummy (smuggled out of Egypt in 1913), a pair of Peruvian mummies belonging to the Paracas (pre-Inca) culture, various ceremonial objects, pre-Columbian ceramics, and an extraordinary decorated shrunken head from the Amazon. The second floor is an art museum exhibiting national and international paintings. Allow an hour to see it all. All of the display information here is in Spanish, but English-speaking guides are available.

Spanish:

El Museo Provincial Emilio Bacardí Moreau, significativo exponente del centro histórico urbano de Santiago de Cuba, se distingue por su fachada ecléctica decorada con elementos neoclásicos. Fue diseñado por el arquitecto Carlos Segrera.

La centenaria Institución cuenta con 3 salas expositivas: Arte, Historia y Arqueología.

Posee un extenso fondo de más de 23000 bienes patrimoniales destacándose documentos y manuscritos, partituras musicales, reliquias históricas de carácter patriótico, colecciones numismáticas, antiguedades curiosas y pertenencias de personalidades internacionalmente reconocidas y significativas para la nación.

La Comisión Nacional de Monumentos por la Resolución No. 3 del 10 de octubre de 1978, declaró en 1999 a la Institución como Monumento Nacional.