Cuban Art
We perform Cuban art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests , full art authentications. We will help you sell your Cuban or we will sell it for you.
Considering the small population of Cuba, of only a million and a half in 1900, it produced a remarkable number of talented artists who flourished during the first 75 years of the 20th century.
Cubans everywhere have good reason to be proud of their artistic heritage.
Of course, Cuba had talented painters long before the early 1900s, and their paintings bring back the echo of a quaint and distant past, the memories of which exist only in our imagination. No one today, can quite imagine what Cuba was like, and what it was like to live in Cuba, in 1850.
These earlier paintings, precious as they are, windows into the past, are nevertheless not so different from other paintings, done in other lands, around the same time.
What sets apart the generation that started to paint in the first few decades of the 1900s is that for the most part, their paintings were unlike anything painted anywhere else.
This is not to deny that Europeans and various modern art movements influenced Cuban painters, but precisely this is all it ever was, an influence. The best Cuban art produced during these golden years of the 20th century is absolutely Cuban. It is nobody else’s art. Just look at it.
Cubans and lovers of things Cuban, have long recognized the merit of these painters and aspired to own and enjoy some of these paintings.
While most of these willing collectors live outside Cuba, the largest stock of Cuban paintings is in Cuba.
There never was an exodus of Cuban paintings. See the history of the past 50 years.
As a result, something bad happened to Cuban art in the past couple of decades. Cuban paintings by the great masters started to multiply, as if they all had their studios in Miami, and as if they were all still alive and painting from sunrise to sunset.
Chaos, lawsuits, gallery closings, great amounts of money lost, disparaged collectors, loss of confidence, were the results.
Seeing this situation, we decided to put together the best possible team of Cuban art experts. We contacted all the surviving members we could locate of all the great Cuban artists and asked them if they would cooperate with us.
We were lucky that we were able to make contact with the Gattorno family members, and also the Carreno, Arche, Rodriguez, Lam, Rivero, Eiriz and some others.
Considering that most of the archives, records, and the largest collections, for most Cuban painters, are in Cuba, we also made contact with art professionals in Cuba and asked them if they would assist us in art authentication research.
The result of these efforts if that today we have the finest team of Cuban art experts, Cuban art researchers and Cuban independent art consultants ever put together.
We are not associated with any art gallery. We do not buy or sell Cuban paintings. We have no vested interest in the Cuban paintings we research.
We perform totally objective and independent research and art authentications.
If you would like to know if a Cuban painting is authentic, contact Art Experts. We have the resources, the experience, and the finest team of specialists to do so. Many of them lived for decades with these artists and are intimately knowledgeable about their paintings.
