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| Mario Mesa |
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Born c. 1940
Biography Born in Cuba, self-taught painter Mario Mesa arrived in the United States on the Mariel Boatlift of 1980. Like many of the marielitos, he had been a political prisoner in Cuba, and lived a very hard life. "I was abandoned at birth. I was poor and couldn't go to school. I never played the games children play. I was always working." He started painting in the United States after being hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. "When I got sick I lived in the streets. I had always been very neat and clean, but everything changed. When I got better I had to help myself. I started painting to give something back. Thanks to painting I got better."
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El Gallo
Mario Mesa (Miami, Florida ,born in Cuba)
Oil on canvas (22x30), 1998
$575 (framed) |
Perro y Pajaros
Mario Mesa (Miami, Florida ,born in Cuba)
Oil on Board (19x25), 1998
$575 (framed) |
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Untitled
Mario Mesa (Miami, Florida ,born in Cuba)
Oil, acrylic on board (25x19), 1997
$850 (framed) |
Perro Moreno
Mario Mesa (Miami, Florida ,born in Cuba)
Oil on Board (26x26), 1998
$550 (framed) |
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