Mariano Rodríguez (1912-1990)

signed and indistinctly dated 42 lower right

The Estate of the Artist

Havana, Lyceum Lawn and Tennis Club, Mariano. Pinturas., January 13-20 1943, no. 1

Jose Veigas Zamora, Mariano: Pinturas en el Lyceum, El Correo del Archivo, October 5, 2012
José Veigas, et. al.,  Mariano: Catálogo Razonado, Madrid, 2008, no. 42.112, p. 47, illustrated in color

This work has been restored and should be hung in its current condition. The canvas is not lined, but there are two small reinforcements on the reverse around the tail of the fish, and another to the hair of the figure. The painting is clean and varnished. The paint layer is very hard to read under ultraviolet light, but there are presumably a few retouches around the edges. (This condition report has been provided courtesy of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.)
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A seminal figure in the development of Cuban modernism throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Mariano Rodríguez favored vibrant compositions where monumental subjects are surrounded by interiors with a nationalist aura while quietly immersed in everyday day scenes. In Mujer con pescado, the artist incorporates chromatic juxtapositions of color radiating from an impossibly fantastical fish, a motif he had begun to explore in the 1940s as part of his Cuban heritage. Executed at the peak of his mature style, the work is a brilliant example of Rodríguez's treatment of women.