Miscellaneous
Lot 3875 SESSION 19 (4.30PM FRIDAY 1ST APRIL) Miscellaneous
Estimate $7,000
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AZZINARI, Franco, (1949 -), oil on canvas, "Captain Gregorio Fuentes", c.1992, depicting the Cuban Captain in a coastal scene with cigar and the Pilar boat behind, framed, (48.5cm x 76.5cm), (91cm x 76.5cm in frame). Very fine and scarce.
Gregorio Fuentes was the Captain of Ernest Hemingway's boat "Pilar" when he was in Cuba. He served as the model for Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea. He was also a friend of Fidel Castro.
This painting was acquired in Havana in 2015.
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