Cuban Artist Rafael Soriano Signed Serigraph #93/150

Cuban Artist Rafael Soriano Signed Abstract Serigraph #93/150

Offered for sale is an original abstract serigraph by the renowned Cuban Artist Raphael Soriano (November 23, 1920 – April 9, 2015) that is signed in the lower right margin and numbered #93/150 in the lower left margin. The prints in displayed in a silvered wood frame with mats under glass.

Rafeal Soriano was born on November 23, 1920, in Cidra, Matanzas Province, Cuba. He studied at the San Alejandro Art Academy in Havana. He started painting in the 1940s and soon became one of the primary practitioners of art in Cuba and Latin America. In 1943, he became a professor. He left Cuba in 1962 and came to the United States with his family. In November 2008, the Miami Dade College West Campus in Doral, Florida hosted a Soriano exhibit titled Between the Mystic and the Spiritual.

Exhibitions
“The Artist as Mystic” El Artista Como Mistico featured nearly a hundred paintings by Soriano as well as pastels and drawings also made by him. The theme was focused on his development as an artist by analyzing his early midway works such as his emigration where his style went through a change.
October 2013 – May 2016 – The Smithsonian Museum featured it as part of its Latino Collection Artwork that explores how Latino Artist shaped the art movement of their time that influenced American art and culture.
January 30th to June 4, 2017 – McMullen Museum of Art[9][10]
June 29th to October 1, 2017 – Long Beach Museum of Art
October 23 to January 28, 2018 – Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. The McMullen Museum of Art organized the exhibition, Boston College collaborated with the Rafael Soriano Foundation and was curated by Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta.
August 30th to October 22, 2017 – Coral Gables Museum displayed the “Real and Imagined: Abstract Art” from CINTAS that explored the art abstraction alongside other artists such as Mario Carreno, Jose Mijares, etc.[citation needed]