And what a bad Magdalena

Characteristics of Reproduction:

Open edition. Unsigned by the artist.

Frame Color - White - Frame Size - 1.25w
Mat Color - White
Paper Type - Archival Matte Fine Art Paper
Print Mounting - Dry Mounted to Foam Core
Glazing - Acrylic Glass
Framed Fine Art Paper Backing - No Backing
Framed Fine Art Paper Hanging Hardware - Sawtooth Hanger installed on frame

About the original work

This reproduction is based on the original painting by Pedro Pablo Oliva And what a bad Magdalena Made in 1974, with mixed technique on cardboard and canvas in a format of 127.5 x 97 cm, which today belongs to the National Museum of Fine Arts Collection in Havana, Cuba.

And how bad Magdalena won First Prize in Painting. 2nd National Salon of Fine Arts Professors and Instructors, 1974

And has been exhibited in:

Permanent Exhibition of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana, Cuban Art Building, Cuba.
"The Exhibition of the Month", 1974, National Museum, Havana.
"Oliva and the images of her people", Havana Gallery, 1978.
"Pedro Pablo Oliva, paintings, sketches and hobbies", MNBA, Havana, September 7 to October 7, 1984. Referenced in the catalogue, page 9, work no. 11.
"I want to paint in peace..." La Acacia Gallery, Havana, May-June 2000, published in the exhibition catalogue, page 5, work no. 9.

Published in:

Various. An Entire People. Letras Cubanas Publishing House, Havana, 1983, pp. 200
Revolution and Culture Magazine, 2/2007 page 36
Strange Games Book. Pedro Pablo Oliva, 2017

“In Y qué mala Magdalena , Pedro Pablo uses symbolic elements with the same intention that has characterized his later work and since then, we identify with his universe through the poetic charge of his signs, which, as a new language, incorporated national art.

In addition to these considerations, if I insist on the aforementioned work, it is because precisely, in the midst of the precarious family life in which Pedro Pablo lived, with barely any essential materials to work, he resolved his painting with basic means at his disposal, working with paper, pigments, burnt bitumen and wax, in an act of audacity that allowed him to overcome the formal schemes of the trade.

Marta Arjona, Catalogue of the exhibition "Pedro Pablo Oliva, paintings, sketches and hobbies", 1984