Lot 246 — “Parqueo,” Two Old Cars on a Havana Plaza, Screen Print 4/5
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Lot 246 — “Parqueo,” Two Old Cars on a Havana Plaza, Screen Print 4/5

A pop-coloured screen print of two 1950s cars, one blue and one red, parked nose to nose on a sunny plaza. Titled “Parqueo” in pencil, numbered 4/5 and signed.

Artist
Unknown artist (pencil signature reads like “Romero,” unconfirmed)
Dimensions
Not yet measured
Materials
Screen print on paper, numbered 4/5, titled and signed in pencil; framed under glass

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Description

Parqueo is Cuban Spanish for a parking spot, and these two have found theirs. A sky-blue sedan and a brick-red one with a V-shaped crest on the hood sit bumper to bumper in the shade, chrome grilles grinning, while yellow columns and palms crowd in behind them. The building at the back carries a sign reading “Partagás, Real Fábrica de Tabacos,” the name of Havana’s old cigar factory. The colours go down flat in yellow, green, blue, red and brown over a black halftone, the way a street photograph looks once it has been pulled through a silkscreen.

In the bottom margin it is numbered 4/5 in pencil, titled “Parqueo,” and signed. The signature looks like “Romero,” but we haven’t confirmed it. An edition of five is a small run, fewer copies than there are boats left in Monroe Harbor in January. Behind glass in a dark red frame.

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