Rene
Portocarrero
Rene Portocarrero, considered Cuba’s finest modern artist, started painting when he was 14. His work was first exhibited in the Salon de Bellas Artes, in Havana. In the 1940s, he gave art classes to the prisoners in a Havana jail and later admitted that he was influenced by the artwork of his “pupils”. Portocarrero was best known for his abstract portraits of women in tropical settings of flowers, birds and trees. He was also inspired by the people and scenes of old Havana, where he spent much of his life.
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