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

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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 ½ × 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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