Cesar Buenaventura y Espinosa - Artist Info

About Cesar Buenaventura y Espinosa

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Cesar Benaventura, Caesar Buenaventura, Cesar Buenaventura
  • Biography

    No one knows the exact scope or magnificence of the large body of work left behind by Filipino oil painter Cesar Buenaventura, perhaps not even himself, if he were still alive. Works were bought wet from the easel or whisked overseas. Jane Stangl Alvero in her book entitled Filipino Painter, Cesar Buenaventura: His Life and Works assembled together into a single portfolio his diverse, extensive and masterful collection. This is the first time that his works are brought to the public eye after his demise.

    Cesar Buenaventura's greatest achievement is that his paintings were known as unofficial "Ambassadors of Goodwill" for the country in the visual arts. Hundreds of living rooms abroad display his works. In the 1940s, 50s...

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