Julio Larraz - Rules of Engagement - ContiniArtUK

Julio Larraz

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT LONDON 3 October - 24 November

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THE MAGIC REALISM OF JULIO LARRAZ

by Edward Lucie-Smith

Julio Larraz, who comes from Cuba, is an exile, but not by choice. He belongs to the great Cuban diaspora. Though he emigrated to America when he was still only a teenager, before he began his career as an artist, he retains a strong feeling of Cuban identity. At the same time, however, his work has been influenced by an experience of North American art – perhaps most of all by the work of Winslow Homer, who made many paintings and – especially – watercolours inspired by regular visits to the Caribbean.

Another important and lasting influence has been Larraz’s keen awareness of the Spanish and Franco-Spanish tradition, in particular the work of Velazquez, and the use made by Manet of both Velazquez and Goya.

Larraz began his career as a professional caricaturist, and to this day a number of his most memorable compositions are sharp-edged political satires, with a particular emphasis on misuses of power and on the sinister complacency of the powerful. Caricature, as an art form, was surrealist long before the emergence of the Surrealist Movement in the early years of the 20th century. It offers the viewer, not familiar reality, but a parallel reality. It tears aside the veils of convention, and shows the viewer how things are when we view them completely naked.

This kind of transformation – from the superficially ‘real’ into something more profoundly truthful – has also been the mainspring of the Magic Realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. In many ways, it makes more sense to compare Larraz’s art, not to that of other visual artists, but to that of some of the major 20th century Latin American authors – he seems to me to have a special affinity to Gabriel García Márquez, to the point where a number of the paintings exhibited here seem like illustrations to stories that Márquez should have written, but somehow never got around to.

The works shown in this exhibition cover a wide spectrum of subjects. There are apparently simple landscapes, ranging in size from two watercolour studies of the Vittoriano – the pompous memorial to Vittorio Emanuele II at Piazza Venezia in Rome - to the big triptych entitled Tongue of the Ocean: a view of an estuary seen from the air, and partly obscured by drifting white cumulus clouds. Equally epic in feeling is the aerial view of a smoking volcano, Monte Calabrone. This title is either entirely fictional, or a fictional nickname 3

for a real location. ‘Calabrone’ is the Italian word for ‘bumblebee’ or, alternatively, for ‘hornet’. It sometimes refers specifically to a particularly large species of bumblebee found in southern Italy. The rumbling noise made by an active volcano can be compared to the noise made by the insect.

These landscapes often have a symbolic subtext, which is more or less apparent. Very openly so, for instance, in La Casa de la Bruja (The House of the Witch), with its solitary white tower standing on barren ground, but placed beside a stream or lake.

Allegory takes over almost completely in the painting called The House of an American Poet, with its vast moon hovering over a structure that looks like a close cousin of Edward Hopper’s famous House by the Railroad – the first painting to enter the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. House by the Railroad has been celebrated in a poem by the well-known American poet Edward Hirsch. The last stanza describes the building as having: The utterly naked look of someone Being stared at, someone American and gawky.

Someone who is about to be left alone Again, and can no longer stand it.

This corresponds fairly exactly to the feeling conveyed by Larraz’s painting, but there is one significant difference between the two compositions. In Larraz’s version, the moon is a dominant force. Hopper’s house is seen in unforgiving daylight.

The present exhibition also contains a distinguished series of still life paintings. These range from the comparatively sober to the deliciously wild. Ramparts depicts a giant clamshell, resting on an otherwise bare table. Any metaphorical energy comes from the title. Other still lifes are more fantastic. Sahasrara shows a cat, reclining on a tottering pillar made from a pile of boxes, each of a different colour and tied with a contrasting ribbon.

The message, perhaps, is one about the instability and fragility of an existence based on idle luxury. La Torre de Babel offers a huge white wedding cake, made in the form of a ziggurat, its basic form derived from Brueghel the Elder’s well-known painting of the 4

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Tower of Babel in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. At the top are two tiny figures, a bride and groom, of the kind often found adorning conventional wedding cakes. The message, in this case, seems to be a prediction of impending marital discord. The image concisely suggests that the two parties speak different psychological languages, and are unlikely to get on. The white purity of the icing doesn’t count.

The wildest of the still life paintings is Rules of Engagement, which shows a canon ball crashing into a basket of fruit. The event is portrayed using the now-established convention of the stop-motion photograph. The missile is in full flight; the various fruits the basket contained are scattering in all directions. High up in the composition, just about to vanish, one sees the bottom half of a bottle of wine. This suggests that the word ‘engagement’ functions as a pun – that this is an impending marriage that is in the process of being disrupted. Maybe one of the (invisible) guests has just uttered a bombshell.

Larraz is always very skilful in his use of historical allusions. There are four paintings that refer directly to the world of Greece and Rome. One is entitled Homer at the Isle of Falconera. It shows an elderly man in a white suit, accompanied by a dog. He stands gazing out to sea. Behind him one sees the bottom half of the colossal bronze statue of a nude woman.

The same man reappears in a composition called At the Villa degli Angeli. He sits meditatively on the edge of a table, in the centre of which is placed a colossal Ancient Greek volute krater, decorated with bands of figures in early black-figure style. The krater is perhaps based on the celebrated François Vase, dating from the early sixth century B.C., now in the Museo Archeologico in Florence. The white-clad man appears again, head just visible over the back of an armchair, in a composition called Helen, only a Memory. He is gazing nostalgically out of a window.

Before him, standing on a table but ignored, is a large bronze statuette of a Greek warrior.

The intended lesson of these three paintings seems to be that we have a nostalgia for the classical past, but are also alienated from it. The man in the white suit has a somewhat raffish air, especially when we see him in some detail, as we do in Villa degli Angeli. One notes his gold cufflinks and gold watch chain, and the Western style black ribbon he wears as a tie. He is definitely a cousin to some of the upmarket racketeers portrayed in other Larraz compositions.

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The fourth picture in the series is somewhat different in tone. The figure in a white suit does not appear. The painting shows a smart white steam yacht, of a slightly old-fashioned kind, sailing between the legs of a colossal bronze figure that must be a kind of equivalent for the legendary Colossus of Rhodes.

The title is La Tremebunda at the Port of Casabianca. In Spanish, the word ‘tremebunda’ means ‘frightening’ or ‘terrifying’, and the use of the female gender suggests that the statue, seen from the three-quarters back, and only as high as its waist, is, in fact, like the slightly smaller statue seen in Homer at the Isle of Falconera, a representation of an enormous nude woman. The metaphor may even be that the statue has given birth to the yacht that passes between her legs.

This image links easily to the representations of powerful, somewhat threatening women, whom one sees portrayed here in other paintings by Larraz – for example in The Queen of Hearts, a Parade for the Needy, or En Route to Casabianca. The second of these offers a particularly powerful fantasy – a black matriarch, seated tranquilly in a motor launch, with a full-grown lion resting beside her.

There is also the white clad woman in Dictum, head cut off by the frame, so as to render her anonymous, who lectures a senior black military man in full uniform, seated humbly before her. He is perhaps the jefe of some small Caribbean state, or president of some Central African nation. The painting implies the complicity of the moralising white world in what happens in nations of this kind.

From here one moves into a world familiar to anyone who has studied Larraz’s work in the past. It is a world of powerfully sinister symbolisms. In Calamar a nattily dressed man who facial features have been blurred stands before a tank that contains a giant octopus.

In Master Spy, another man, features even more blurred, present himself before a similar tank that imprisons an enormous shark. In Canto Confesante a be-medalled military leader appears above a wall on which we see the shadows of two enormous praying mantises, locked in mortal combat. Larraz is a master of the sinister and unsettling image, which somehow also becomes resonantly poetic. His paintings haunt the imagination long after one has first seen them. They are more real than reality.

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OIL oN CANVAS

At the Villa degli Angeli 2013 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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Just before Dawn 2014 oil on canvas 183 x 244 cm - 72 x 96 in

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A Rendezvous with Homer 2013 oil on canvas 183 x 213 cm - 72 x 84 in

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Calamar 2014 oil on canvas 210 x 146 cm - 82.5 x 57.5 in

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Dictum 2013 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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Canto Confesante 2011 oil on canvas 183 x 152 cm - 72 x 60 in

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Head of Secret Police 2011 oil on canvas 127 x 152 cm - 50 x 60 in

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Salones para Fumar 2009 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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Scuola di San Rocco 2014 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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Secret Talks 2014 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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The House of an American Poet 2012 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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Vista del Golfo II 1990 oil on canvas 41 x 51 cm - 16 x 20 in

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The Stars Above UR 2012 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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The Queen of Hearts, a Parade for the Needy 2014 oil on canvas 183 x 152 cm - 72 x 60 in

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Transaction at Noon 2014 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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Tongue of the Ocean

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Helen, only a Memory 2014 oil on canvas 127 x 102 cm - 50 x 40 in

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La Torre de Babel 2013 oil on canvas 183 x 152 cm - 72 x 60 in

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La Tremebunda at the Port of CasabIanca 2014 oil on canvas 183 x 152 cm - 72 x 60 in

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Homer at the Isle of Falconera 2014 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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La Fuga del Dictador 2012 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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La Pesca de la Langosta 2011 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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Sahasrara 2012 oil on canvas 183 x 152 cm - 72 x 60 in

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Landing Party 2013 oil on canvas 102 x 127 cm - 40 x 50 in

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Rules of Engagement 2014 oil on canvas 213 x 183 cm - 84 x 72 in

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Master Spy 2011 oil on canvas 183 x 152 cm - 72 x 60 in

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Monte Calabrone 2013 oil on canvas 102 x 127 cm - 40 x 50 in

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Punta Cobadiles, Cumae 2013 oil on canvas 127 x 102 cm - 50 x 40 in

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In the Hokusai Room 2014 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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La Casa de la Bruja 2012 oil on canvas 152 x 183 cm - 60 x 72 in

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La Fragoletta and the King of Diamonds off the Coast of Cumae 2011 oil on canvas 102 x 127 cm - 40 x 50 in

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Watercolor & Pastel on Paper

En route to Casabianca 2013 watercolor & pastel on paper 99 x 135 cm - 39 x 53 in

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Celebration 2014 watercolor & pastel on paper 99 x 135 cm - 39 x 53 in

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Il Vittoriano from the Campidolio 2012 watercolor on paper 41 x 30 cm - 16 x 12 in

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Il Vittoriano Roma 2012 watercolor on paper 41 x 30 cm - 16 x 12 in

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Ramparts 2014 watercolor & pastel on paper 116 x 208 cm - 451/2 x 813/4 in 84

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PUNTA DELLA DOGANA 2010 watercolor on paper 42 x 29.5 cm - 16 x 12 in

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Biography AWARDS EXHIBITIONS COLLECTIONS

Biography

Julio Larraz was born in Havana, Cuba, on March 12 1944. The son of a newspaper editor, he began drawing at a very early age. In 1961 his whole family moved to Miami, Florida. In 1962 they moved to Washington, DC and in 1964 to New York .There he began to draw political caricatures that were published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and Vogue magazine, among others.

In 1967 Larraz began to work full time as professional painter. Larraz credits several New York artists such as Burt Silverman, for teaching him different painting techniques.

In 1971 his first individual exhibition took place in the Pyramid Gallery in Washington, DC. In 1972 his work was exhibited in the New School for Social Research in New York and in 1973 he carried out another exhibition with the FAR Gallery in New York.

In 1976 he won both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters awards. The same year he was also rewarded with the Cintas scholarship of the International Education Institute.

One year later, Larraz moved to San Patricio, New Mexico, fascinated by the light and atmosphere of Valle Hondo’s arid hills. There he met Ron Hall, whose gallery in Dallas, Texas harbored his work for several years. Ron Hall would become one of his best friends.

In 1983 he moved to Paris, where he stayed for two years. In this new environment he found inspiration for his paintings. While living in Paris, Larraz also travelled to Morocco.

In 1984 he moved again to the United States.

In 1983 he met Nohra Haime whose New York gallery represented him until 1994. In 1998 he began to work with the Marlborough Gallery in New York which represented him for fifteen years. Larraz moved to Florence, Italy, in the year 2000, staying there until 2004. Once again he found new sources of inspiration there.

In 2004, Larraz began to work with Galleria D’Arte Contini in Italy, marking the beginning of yet another great professional and personal relationship that continues to the present day. Larraz frequently visits Italy, where in 2006 he worked on his monumental sculptures which were exhibited in Pietrasanta.

In 2014 Larraz began working with Contini Art UK Gallery in London and Ameringer, McEnery & Yohe Gallery in New York.

Julio Larraz is best known by his precise and detailed technique, his imagination, and his subtle touch. Nowadays, Julio Larraz’s work is more solid than ever. His art has become more concise and suggestive, not only in the brushstrokes that reflect the dexterity of a master painter but in the metaphors of his brilliant themes.

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AWARDS

Gold Medal Award 2011, Casita Maria, Center for the arts and education New York, Cintas Grant, Instituto de Educaci贸n Internacional, New York, NY Grants, The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Purchase Prize, Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1997 Facts About Cuban Exile, FACE, Miami

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 “Rules of Engagement” ContiniArtUK, London

“Two Hundred Years in Power” Galeria Arteconsult, Panama city, Panama, in collaboration with Ascaso Gallery

“Julio Larraz, Del mare, dell’aria e di altre storie” Catania, Italy, Fondaz. Puglisi Cocentino in collaboration with Galleria d’Arte Contini.

2013 Coming Home, Ascaso Gallery, Miami, Florida

Julio Larraz, Galeria Duque Arango and Art of the World, Medellin, Colombia

“Omaggio Julio Larraz”Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venezia , Italy

Julio Larraz, Marlborough Gallery Monaco. Monte Carlo, Monaco Julio Larraz, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Julio Larraz, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome ( In collaboration with Galleria d’Arte Contini) 2010 Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venice, Italy Julio Larraz, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2009 Julio Larraz, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy Julio Larraz, The Bellevue, Biarritz, France (in collaboration with Marlborough New York) 2007 Monumental Sculpture Show, Pietrasanta, Italy 2006 Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venice, Italy

Julio Larraz: New Work, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

Julio Larraz - Giochi di potere, Piazza del Duomo, Chiesa e Chiostro di Sant’Agostino Pietrasanta, Italy 2005 Julio Larraz - trienta años de trabajo, Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador;

traveled to Museo de Arte de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Altri Sol, Other Suns, Tuscan Sun Festival, Cortona, Italy

Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy 2004 Julio Larraz: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Treinta años de trabajo, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia; traveled to Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico;

Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica 2003 L’ultimo sguardo dopo la Terra, Forni Galleria d’Arte, Bologna, Italy 2002 Oeuvres récentes: peintures et sculptures, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo

Julio Larraz, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France

El sueño es vida, Galleria Tega, Milan, Italy 2001 Julio Larraz, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy 2000 New Works, Marlborough Florida, Boca Raton, Florida; traveled to Galería A.M.S. Marlborough, Santiago, Chile

Julio Larraz, Galleria Tega, FIAC, Paris, France 1999 Julio Larraz’s Sculptures, Galleria Tega, Art Miami, Miami, Florida

Luis Perez Galeria, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

Julio Larraz, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

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Julio Larraz, Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, Peru

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014

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Papertrail, Latin American Masters, Santa Monica , California Caribbean : Crossroads of the World ,Perez Art Museum Miami Art Miami, Ascaso Gallery FIA , Caracas, Venezuela, Galeria de Arte Ascaso Art Southampton, Southampton N. Y., Ascaso Gallery The Armory Show, Marlborough Gallery 2012 Exposition de groupe, Marlborough Monaco 2011 “Omaggio agli artisti” Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venezia , Italy 2010 The Miami Sculpture Biennale

Art Basel, Miami, Marlborough Gallery 2009 Art Miami, Galleria d’Arte Contini Art Basel, Miami, Marlborough Gallery Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Latin American Art, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Painting and Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, December 12, 2007 – February 9 2008 Wit & Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, March 6 - 31

Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, June 6 – August

Sobre el Humor, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain, June 28 – September 8

Represenation 2007 New York & San Francisco, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, June 1 - July 21, 2007.

Latin Masters, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, August 26 – November 4 2006 Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Landscape, Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Sculptures Monumentales à Saint-Tropez, La Citadelle, Saint Tropez, France

Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Galleria Tega 2003 Parcours Figuratif, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris France

Paraiso Perdido: Aspectos del Paisaje en el Arte Latinoamericano, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida

Modelvrouwen, The Hague Sculpture-Kloosterkerk, The Hague, Netherlands

La Fête, Le Bellevue, Biarritz, France. This show traveled to Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad, Valencia, Spain

Art Miami, Miami, Florida, Marlborough Gallery 2002 Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy, Marlborough Gallery

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This exhibition traveled to: Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Silent Things, Secret Things, Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millenium, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico Figuración Internacional, Galería Marlborough, Madrid. This exhibition traveled to: Caja Burgos, Burgos, Spain; Centro Cultural Rioja, Logroño, Spain Giardino botanico di Paul Klee, Museo di Arte Moderno di Catania, Catania, Italy Maestros Latinoamericanos, Galería Espacio, San Salvador, El Salvador Group Show, Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, NY Octava Exposición de Pintura y Escultura Latinoamericana, Galería Espacio, San Salvador, El Salvador Latin Viewpoints into the Mainstream, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York Magic & Mystery, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas Point/Counterpoint, Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, California Latin American Art Masters, Gary Nader Fine Arts, Miami, Florida Cuban Masters of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Leaving our Earth – the Artistic Vision, Taejon International Expo, USA Pavillion, Taejon, Korea Selections, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Topography of Landscape, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Fifth Anniversary, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri The Sterlington Exhibit, Sterlington, New York, NY Voyages of the Modern Imagination-The Boat in Twentieth Century American Art, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Selections, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Figuración Fabulación, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela Contemporary & Modern Masters, Ron Hall Gallery, Dallas, Texas 17 Contemporary Prints & Multiples, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Dali, DePalma, Haring, Kuzio, Larraz, Warhol, Montebello Park, Suffern, New York 42 Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Works on Hanji Paper, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Points of View in Landscape, M. Gutierrez Fine Art, Key Biscayne, Florida Selections, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY June Moon-Lunar Reflections by Contemporary Artists, G.W. Einstein & Company, New York, NY Master Prints, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Figurative-Abstract, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas Nocturne Portraying the Night, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri Blues and Other Summer Delights, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY La Naturaleza Muerta, Galería Iriarte, Bogotá, Colombia 101

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This exhibition traveled to: New York Academy of Art, New York; City Art Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina V Bienal de Artes Graficas, Museo de Arte Moderno, La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia Maestros en la colección del Museo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia The Mount Aramah Exhibition, Orange County Historical Society, Arden, New York Major Works Gallery Artists, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Pastels, Aleman Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts Outside Cuba, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

This exhibition later traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts, New York; Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Atlanta College of Art and New Visions Gallery of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY The Anatomy of Drawing, Hooks/Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas Latin American Artists in New York Since 1970, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas Watercolors Plus, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Eccentric Images, RVS Fine Arts, Southampton, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition: New Space, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Artistas Latinoamericanos en Paris, Galería Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama Rotating, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Summer Group Exhibition, Galleria II Gabbiano, Rome, Italy MIRA, Museo del Barrio, New York. This exhibition traveled to: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois; Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, Florida; Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas; Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, Denver, Colorado Latin American Artists in New York, Arteconsult International, Boston, Massachusetts Pastels, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York Gallery Artists-Recent Work, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY The Art of South America, Saint Paul’s Companies, Saint Paul, Minnesota Julio Larraz-Hugo Robus, Blue Hill Cultural Center, Pearl River, New York, NY Still Life – Thematic Survey, Zin-Lerner Gallery, New York, NY Maestros Latinoamericanos: Obras sobre papel, Galería Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama Group Exhibition, Rossi Gallery, Morristown, New Jersey Clouds, Stuart-Neill Gallery, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Mary Anne Martin Fine Arts, New York, NY Diciembre en Iriarte, Galería Iriarte, Bogotá, Colombia and Bonino Gallery, New York, NY Dibujantes Latinoamericanos en Nueva York, Galería Garcés-Velasquez, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia 5a Bienal del Grabado Latinoamericano, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico Modern Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Center for Inter-American Relations and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, NY Realism and Latin American Painting: The Seventies, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York.

This exhibition traveled to: Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Five Realists, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY Image and Illustration, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey Art in Decoration, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 103

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Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY A Sampling from the Academy Collection, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Recent Latin American Drawings (1960-1976) Lines of Vision, organized by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington D.C. This exhibition traveled to: Center for Inter-American Relations, New York; Florida International University, Miami, Florida; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Nine Cuban Artists, Saint Peter’s College Art Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey Art in the Kitchen, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania Thirty-Ninth Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio American Still Lifes, FAR Gallery, New York, NY Paintings available for the Childe Hassam Fund Purchase, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY The Fine Art of Food, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California

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SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS American Express Bank, Paris, France Bacardi Corporation, Miami, Florida Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York Dunn & Bradstreet, New York, New York First Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Guest Quarters, Florida and Texas Mitsui & Company (USA) Inc., New York, New York W.R. Grace & Company, New York, New York Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania World Bank, Washington, D.C.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Cintas Foundation, New York, New York Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, Florida Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotรก, Colombia Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania Boca raton Museum of Art. Florida Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) , Miami Florida

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