Luciérnaga (Firefly), 1955

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 83.82 × 127 cm (33 × 50 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Gift of the Rafael Soriano Family Collection

Accession Number

2024.32.1

Artists / Makers

Rafael Soriano (artist) Cuban, 1920 - 2015

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Inscription

lower right: Soriano / 55

Provenance

The artist. Private collection, Matanzas, Cuba, by 1962; purchased by Eduardo J. Labrada Acuna; purchased 2 February 2012 by the Rafael Soriano Family Collection, Miami Beach, FL;[1] purchased 2024 by NGA.

[1] According to the Rafael Soriano Foundation, the painting was likely given by Rafael Soriano before he went into exile in 1962 to a family in Matanzas, Cuba (the artist’s hometown), from whom it was later acquired by Eduardo J. Labrada Acuna. See email of 9 April 2024, copy in NGA curatorial file.

Associated Names

Labrada Acuna, Eduardo J.
Rafael Soriano Family Collection
Rafael Soriano Foundation

Exhibition History

2017: Rafael Soriano: The Artists as Mystic-El artista como místico, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, and Casa de America, Madrid, 2017-2023, no. 16.

Bibliography

2018: Uszerowicz, Monica. "A deeply Modern Cuban artist who connected with the Divine, "HyperallergicJanuary 5, 2018, https://hyperallergic.com/420102/a-deeply-modern-cuban-artist-who-connected-with-the-divine/, accessed on 15 July 2024.

2022: Blanco, Richard, Alejandro Anreus, and Carol Damian. Rafael Soriano. Transcendentalism, Distilled. Exh. cat. LnS Gallery, Miami, FL, 2022: 8, 9 10, 68, repro.