Casein on Cardboard by Maestro Tomas SANCHEZ, one of the most important living Cuban artists with record auction. Best known for his hyperreal landscapes, his earlier works explore a looser painted gesture steeped, as ever, in symbolism. This intimate work "Jesus behind a glass with raindrops" is a exciting self-portrait which is part of this quest.

SANCHEZ began his studies as a painter in 1964 at the San Alejandro School of Plastic Arts in Havana & later at the Escuela Nacional de Arte. In 1980 he won the Joan Miró Drawing Prize, given by the Miró Foundation in Barcelona and in 1984 the Amelia Peláez Award for painting at Havana’s first biennial. In 1985 he had his first retrospective at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. He joined the Marlborough Gallery in 1996. In 2003 a substantial monograph on the artist’s body of work was published by Skira with an essay by the South American poet and Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez and texts by Edward J. Sullivan.