Schuler · Lot 3221
Landscape
Gouache
Original catalogue wording
Landschaft
gouache
Catalogue period : 2018-09-21
Published result : 3400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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Manuel Mendive
Born : 1944Documented citizenships : Cuba
Manuel Mendive’s work draws on Santería, a tradition present in his family, and on a recurring attentiveness to the natural world; it takes shape on a range of supports, including the human body. Born in Havana, in the Luyanó district, on 15 December 1944, the Cuban artist has developed a practice in which legends, deities and symbols of Santería appear alongside flowers, birds, roots and zoomorphic creatures. He studied painting and sculpture at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1963, and also trained in ethnology and folklore at the Cuban Academy of Sciences, as well as in art history at the University of Havana.
Santería, described as a cornerstone of his work, appears through the stories, deities and symbols of this tradition. Nature is another source of inspiration: his motifs include flowers, birds and tree roots, while his scenes may evoke forests inhabited by human and zoomorphic figures. Mendive says that his travels in Africa also helped shape his work. He creates his figures on wood, iron and canvas, as well as on human skin; he is among the first artists in Cuba to explore body art, notably by painting dancers during performances accompanied by Afro-Cuban dances.
His career is marked by early distinctions: at the age of ten, he won first prize in an international children’s painting competition sponsored by the Japanese Morigana Society and UNESCO. He later received the collective Adam Montparnasse de la jeune peinture prize at the 24th Salon de Mai in Paris and the National Prize at the second international festival in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1970. Exhibitions cited include the Mpapa Gallery in Lusaka in 1982, the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988 and the Gary Nader Gallery in Coral Gables in 2005. The French Republic appointed him a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1994. In 2001, he received the National Visual Arts Prize of the Republic of Cuba. Works by Mendive are held, among other institutions, by the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, the Emilio Bacardí Museum in Santiago de Cuba, the Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, the Atlantic Center of Modern Art in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington. Among the documented works is Landschaft, a gouache on paper dated 1992 and signed at the lower left, measuring 57.7 × 77 cm; it was hammered down at CHF 3,400 at a Schuler auction in September 2018.
This profile brings together identity references for Manuel Mendive and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Documented auction references
9auction references
3auction houses
1documented result with a price
Schuler · Germann · Dobiaschofsky
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Works recorded at auction
Germann
Ogum, 1984
Oil on cardboard
Original catalogue wording
Ogum, 1984
Öl auf Karton.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Germann
Untitled, 1983
Öl auf Leinwand, auf Karton aufgezogen.
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel, 1983
Öl auf Leinwand, auf Karton aufgezogen.
Date to be documented
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Germann
Untitled, 1997
Aquarell und Farbkreide auf Papier.
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel, 1997
Aquarell und Farbkreide auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Germann
Ohne Titel, 1993
Gouache and collage on paper
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel, 1993
Gouache und Collage auf Papier.
Date to be documented
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Germann
Untitled, 1997
Oil on paper
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel, 1997
Öl auf Papier.
Date to be documented
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Germann
Ohne Titel, 1994
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel, 1994
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
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Germann
Untitled, 1997
Watercolour on paper
Original catalogue wording
Untitled, 1997
Aquarell auf Papier.
Date to be documented
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Dobiaschofsky
Untitled
Ink and watercolour on paper
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel.
Tusche und Aquarell auf Papier
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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