Rafael Ferrer, Portrait of Charles Darwin as a Fuegian Ceremonial Mask, 1972
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Portrait of Charles Darwin as a Fuegian Ceremonial Mask, 1972
Oil and enamel on drum with fur, bronze, twine, leather, plastic-coated wire, metal wire, and pin
26 ¼ × 15 ½ × 6 ¼ in. (66.7 × 39.4 × 15.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Earl and Betsy Millard, 1991.32.a-b. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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Rafael Ferrer, Elegia para un Amigo I, 1983 - Short In this colorful drawing with a green ground and pink, yellow, and orange background, a woman wearing glasses, blue sandals, and a blue and purple collared dress walks with her eyes closed, carrying flowers.
Rafael Ferrer, Amaranta, 1982 - Short Painting of a woman standing over a green table set with candles and a proportionally smaller turbaned man lying on a gray fabric and holding a piece of paper with blood gushing from his wrists
Rafael Ferrer, Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), 1982 - Short Installation view of a grid of thirteen colorful paintings with varied subject matter
Rafael Ferrer, Coronacion y Masacre de la Reina de Madagascar (Coronation and Massacre of the Queen of Madagascar), 1982 - Short Vivid painting with densely packed images including a palm tree labeled "Madagascar," a large clock framed by simple face masks, broad leafed plants, and abstracted naked human figures
Rafael Ferrer, Ejecucion de José Arcadio Segundo (Execution of José Arcadio Segundo), 1982 - Short In this colorful painting, a man stands defiantly in front of a wall, looming over a firing squad aiming rifles at him. Bloody bodies lie in the foreground and a bright sun sets on the horizon.
Rafael Ferrer, El Cuarto del Coronel Aureliano Buendia (The Room of the Colonel Aureliano Buendia), 1982 - Short This colorful painting shows a room with two chairs, a yellow table with a red knife, lamp, and gun, and a wall covered with text and drawings. In the rear a black sillhouette of a person opens a red door.
Rafael Ferrer, El Fin (The End), 1982 - Short Painted portrait of a person in a green shirt with large black hair and beard framing a grimacing face on a yellow-brown background with black scribbled human body parts
Rafael Ferrer, José Arcadio Buendia, 1982 - Short Vivid painting of a bearded man in yellow pants tied to a tree, a retreating line of three houses, and four black birds and a man flying in the sky
Rafael Ferrer, José Arcadio Segundo, 1982 - Short Painting of a nude man on a floating pedestal surrounded by colorful outlines of two nude women, and floating male and female genitalia against a white background
Rafael Ferrer, Joven Melquíades (Young Melquíades), 1982 - Short Painted portrait of a waving shirtless man with black hair, beard, and chest hair against a yellow background
Rafael Ferrer, La Muerte del Coronel Aureliano Buendia (The Death of the Colonel Aureliano Buendia), 1982 - Short Vividly painted landscape with an elephant, camel, house, and people: one carrying a drum, another cartwheeling, and six more balancing in a formation
Rafael Ferrer, Los Diecisiete Aurelianos (The Seventeen Aurelianos), 1982 - Short Colorfully painted four-by-four grid of men's portraits, each with a small cross on the forehead
Rafael Ferrer, Los Trenes de la Muerto (Train of Death), 1982 - Short Painting of a black, red, and yellow train densely zigzagging across a green background
Rafael Ferrer, Pilar Ternera Mirando (Pilar Ternera Watching), 1982 - Short Colorful painting of a large gray-haired woman standing next to a yellow bed with two nude tangled bodies and a large gray heart hung on a blue wall
Rafael Ferrer, Remedios, 1982 - Short Painting of a bald, naked woman emerging from an amorphous gray form as a face with black hair watches through from the top of the work
Rafael Ferrer, El Club, 1981 - Short Colorful painting of a nude woman on stage under a spotlight surrounded by people peering in from the perimeter
Rafael Ferrer, El Cantante 2, 1980 - Short Drawn portrait of a bald man opening his mouth wide open and wearing blue glasses and a black-and-white shirt against a yellow and red horizontally striped background
Rafael Ferrer, La Mujer I, 1980 - Short In this colorfully drawn portrait in profile, a blue-faced person wears a babushka and extends an arm across the foreground, hand holding a smoking cigarette.
Rafael Ferrer, The Dreamer, 1980 - Short Oval wire frame enclosing an abstracted human form made of wire, painted canvas, and small objects
Rafael Ferrer, Traitor Series #4, 1979 - Short This colorful drawing is divided into four equal sections, each containing either a floating human head wearing a hat and bow tie or a sail boat on choppy waters.
Rafael Ferrer, Untitled, 1979 - Short In this painting, a face with red eyes, nose, and mouth and divided into sections of vivid white, lime green, and yellow, floats against a half blue, half black background
Rafael Ferrer, Untitled, 1979 - Short Blocky human face painted in broad strokes of green, yellow, red, and black
Rafael Ferrer, First Fetish Construction, 1978 - Short Long narrow sculpture made of rope, leather, enamled wood, and metal
Rafael Ferrer, El Caribe II, 4 de julio, 1977 - Short Colorful drawn grid of geometric shapes layered with amorphous shapes and a white rectangular border
Rafael Ferrer, Untitled (Paddle), 1977 - Short A long oar hung paddle-end up, painted in swirling colors of purple, cream, blue, and brown and with bright red lips and black eyes rimmed with red
Rafael Ferrer, Untitled, 1974 - Short Colorful drawing on a paper bag of an abstract human face with striped eyes, lopsided mouth, and pointy teeth
Rafael Ferrer, Kayak #2:Norte, 1972 - Short A sculpture in the form of a small canoe is mounted to the gallery wall.
Rafael Ferrer, New Mexico, Date unknown - Short Colorful human face drawn on a paper bag