MCA – Collection: Rafael Ferrer, El Cuarto del Coronel Aureliano Buendia (The Room of the Colonel Aureliano Buendia), 1982

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Images of Rafael Ferrer, El Cuarto del Coronel Aureliano Buendia (The Room of the Colonel Aureliano Buendia)

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, American, b. Puerto Rico, 1933
El Cuarto del Coronel Aureliano Buendia (The Room of the Colonel Aureliano Buendia), 1982
Oil on canvas
21 1/2 × 16 7/16 in. (54.6 × 41.7 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Earl and Betsy Millard, 1991.46.6
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

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Rafael Ferrer, Estudio Tropical (Tropical Study), 1985
1. Short Colorful painting of a sandy beach covered with palm trees and a body of water and sky in the background
Rafael Ferrer, Elegia para un Amigo I, 1983
1. 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, Elegia para un Amigo II, 1983
Rafael Ferrer, Elegia para un Amigo III, 1983
Rafael Ferrer, Since then I am looking for you to tell you, 1983
Rafael Ferrer, Amaranta, 1982
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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 Fin (The End), 1982
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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
1. Short Painting of a black, red, and yellow train densely zigzagging across a green background
Rafael Ferrer, Pilar Ternera Mirando (Pilar Ternera Watching), 1982
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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
1. Short Oval wire frame enclosing an abstracted human form made of wire, painted canvas, and small objects
Rafael Ferrer, Traitor Series #4, 1979
1. 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
1. 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
1. Short Blocky human face painted in broad strokes of green, yellow, red, and black
Rafael Ferrer, First Fetish Construction, 1978
1. Short Long narrow sculpture made of rope, leather, enamled wood, and metal
Rafael Ferrer, Ciclon en el Mar de la China, 1977
Rafael Ferrer, El Caribe II, 4 de julio, 1977
1. Short Colorful drawn grid of geometric shapes layered with amorphous shapes and a white rectangular border
Rafael Ferrer, Untitled (Paddle), 1977
1. 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, Bituki Bakilin Bin Bin, 1974
Rafael Ferrer, Untitled, 1974
1. Short Colorful drawing on a paper bag of an abstract human face with striped eyes, lopsided mouth, and pointy teeth
Rafael Ferrer, Title unknown, 1973
Rafael Ferrer, Title unknown, 1973
Rafael Ferrer, A Flag for the Straits of Magellan, 1972
Rafael Ferrer, Kayak #2:Norte, 1972
1. Short A sculpture in the form of a small canoe is mounted to the gallery wall.
Rafael Ferrer, Portrait of Charles Darwin as a Fuegian Ceremonial Mask, 1972
Rafael Ferrer, New Mexico, Date unknown
1. Short Colorful human face drawn on a paper bag