El descanso del héroe (The Hero at Rest)
1992
Artist, Cuban, 1920 - 2015

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Gift of the Rafael Soriano Family Collection in memory of Milagros Soriano
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Dimensions
overall: 127 × 152.4 cm (50 × 60 in.)
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Accession
2024.31.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist [1920-2015]; the Rafael Soriano Family Collection; gift 2024 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2011
Raphael Soriano:Other Worlds within. A Sixty Year Retrospective, The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 2011, no. 52, repro.
2017
Rafael Soriano: The Artists as Mystic-El artista como místico, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, 2017-2018, no. 69
Inscriptions
lower right: SORIANO