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Havana was René Portocarrero's natural habitat. If once - during his childhood years - El Cerro neighborhood defined his universe, the painter's coming of age marked his unfolding towards the confines of the capital city. We can say that if any Cuban seized Havana and, at the same time, the city claimed the painter its own, that was René Portocarrero.
"Here are the
hundred and more cities - let us be wary of the figures in the catalog - seized and captured by the Prodigious Magician, Don René Portocarrero. Are all of these perhaps just one?", would note Eliseo Diego, friend of the painter and Originista as well, in comments written precisely for the exposition, Landscapes of Havana by René Portocarrero, University of Havana, L Gallery, October 1978.
Roberto Fernández Retamar, earlier, in his words for the exhibition, Portocarrero: The Color of Cuba, Havana Gallery, May 1963, had observed, "One city is not made with a compass upon paper: it is made by combining necessity with contingency, caprice with duty: the balcony from where you can view the sea, with the plaza of kisses; the contorted street with four hundred years of rain over a number of stones. This is how Havana has been crafted. And Portocarrero has painted it, bringing along with him its interiors, its stained-glass windows, its gates, its cupolas, its skies. Havana has been sung by a poet with the certainty only a poet can express."
RAMÓN CERNUDA
RENÉ PORTOCARRERO (1912 - 1985)
Landscape of Havana
(Paisaje de La Habana), 1961 mixed media on heavy paper oil on canvas 28 x 35 inches
Private Collection, Water Mill, New York.
Provenance:
Marjorie Schatt collection, New York;
Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.
Illustrated in the book Cuban Art:
Remembering Cuba Through its Art, Private Collections in Exile, Volume One, Felipe Del Valle, Diego Costapeuser and others, Arte al Día, Miami, FL, 2004, p. 153.
Illustrated in the book Portocarrero, Color de Cuba, Alejo Carpentier, Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana, 2012, page 112.
Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO:
Obras Escogidas, Ramón Vázquez Diaz, Fundación Arte Cubano, Artes Gráficas Palermo, Madrid, 2015, page 373.

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218er Paradies Sachsen-Anhalt !? Zumindest für ein Wochenende verwandelte sich die Mitte Sachsen-Anhalts vom 05. bis zum 07. Juni diesen Jahres, anlässlich des 24. Sachsen-Anhalt-Tages in Bernburg zum Paradies von Eisenbahnfans. Insgesamt drei Zusatzzüge, bestehend aus je drei Doppelstockwagen und einem y-Wagenpark, pendelten zwischen der Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg und Bernburg. Am Abend des 07. Juni zog 218 425 ihre drei Dosto als extra für das Wochenende neu eingeführten RE 37 von Köthen nach Magdeburg und konnte kurz nach dem Fahrtrichtungswechsel, kurz hinter Güsten bildlich festgehalten werden.

De eerste trein van het Zusatzfahrplan was deze 218 425 met 3 WFL dosto's. De lok is door WFL gehuurd van DB gebrauchtzug en komt hier onder toeziend oog van tientallen fotografen Bernburg Hbf binnengereden onderweg van Magdeburg Hbf naar Köthen.