El descanso del héroe (The Hero at Rest)

1992

Rafael Soriano

Artist, Cuban, 1920 - 2015

Organic bulb-, chamber-, and vein-shaped forms are painted in golden yellow, petal pink, and dusky violet in this abstract, square painting.

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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

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