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• 10 / 22 / 2006

By: Damián Donestévez

The SubastaHabana Cuban Fine Arts Auction Fair is back in October and November. The cultural event is now dedicated to Cuban master artist Victor Manuel Garcia and aimed at selling over half a million Euros worth of works of art.

The Organizing Committee says that pieces by outstanding contemporary maestroes and artists are already being sold in different art circuits. SubastaHabana has two sales methods: an public auction scheduled for November 16th at Havana's National Hotel, where paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs will be exhibited and sold; and an Internet auction which already got underway on October 2nd and will run through the 28th.

The head of the event's curators team, Silvia Llanes, said that pieces by 79 Cuban artists are involved in this year's activity, representing a wide collection of different times, styles and expression means.

The works to be auctioned include a Chango by master painter Manuel Mendive; an engraving by Cuban artist Belkis Ayon, who passed away on an early stage of her life and a work by Umberto Peña, who represents pop arts in Cuba, a tendency which has little by little gained momentum in the Auction.

The different periods and stages of artists who made history in Cuban fine arts are currently being seen at the auction, including masters Amelia Pelaez, Rene Portocarrero, Servando Cabrera, and others.

The fourth edition of the SubastaHabana Auction in 2005 included sales worth 535 600 Convertible Cuban Pesos, an amount which organizers expect to obtain this year.

As of September 30, all works are on display at the website www.subastahabana.com and at the Havana and 23 y 12 Galleries in the Cuban capital's Vedado district.