Amelia Peláez’s Still life, restored 2016
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The artist known giving Cuban painting female insight. Amelia Peláez’s Still life was given to Florence following Palazzo Vecchio’s 1968 exhibition “The Cubans”. Its architectural detailing and lapis blue background immediately conjure René Portocarrero’s observations: “Peláez was the first to know how to take our local color and transfer it to pictures of great beauty and masterpieces in visual arts.” Restored and exhibited in 2016 for “Beyond Borders”, a show at Florence’s Twentieth-century Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Arno’s disastrous flooding. MOMA founder Alfred H. Barr credited Amelia Peláez ‘for bringing Latin American Art into the Twentieth century’.