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Cuba, c. 1960
bronze over hand-built ceramic with applied color 60 h × 27 w × 24 d in (152 × 69 × 61 cm)
bronze over hand-built ceramic with applied color 60 h × 27 w × 24 d in (152 × 69 × 61 cm)
estimate: $25,000–30,000
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Ernesto Gonzalez exhibited widely in the 1950s and 1960s in New York and throughout the east coast. After an accomplished career and exhibition history in Cuba, including a solo show at the Museo Nacional in Havana, his artistic style and technique morphed upon his move to the United States. In Cuba, he studied as a sculptor but grew interested in welding and metalwork after a 1949 trip to the States. His primary technique utilized oxy-acetylene welding, a self-taught and self-perfected method in which he layered metal over a hand-constructed framework. This inventive approach allowed for large, expressive works that were created by hand.
