Kno! (1968) - "Muchacha con Sombrilla". No reserve.

The work “Muchacha con Sombrilla” is not a printed piece. It is a completely original painting, hand-painted by the artist Kno! (1968), created in 2026 with mixed media of acrylic, ink, and varnish on a flat canvas, without a frame, measuring 40.5 x 27.5 centimeters.

It is part of the series "Gitana Tropical en Europa" which reinterprets the iconic Gitana Tropical (1929) by Víctor Manuel (https://www.bellasartes.co.cu/obra/victor-manuel-garcia-gitana-tropical-1929-0), reflecting on Cuban identity and the lamentable migratory exodus of its people to wherever in the world...

About this series, the Cuban ethnologist and folklorist Pedro Betancourt wrote:

"Kno! undertakes a bold exercise in iconographic appropriation. Almost a century after Víctor Manuel García painted his emblematic Gitana Tropical (1929), Kno! resurrects that melancholic and universal gaze to place it in a new setting: contemporary Europe...

- Kno! is the artistic pseudonym of Jorge Alberto Pérez Fernández: I am a painter and Spanish-born architect of Cuban origin. I graduated in architecture in 1989 and I have practiced painting from a very early age, receiving training at the José Joaquín Tejada School of Arts in Santiago de Cuba and at the University of Oriente.
Before dedicating myself to painting professionally, I designed and built important buildings in the eastern Cuban provinces where I always integrated art with architecture.
I served a two-year prison term at the United States Naval Base in Guantánamo, and since that period I have devoted myself definitively to the plastic arts.

During my career as an artist I have received the following recognitions:

. National Award for Solidarity Painting with the Palestinian People, in Cuba, in 1984.

. National Award for Housing Design, in Cuba, in 1994.

. Nominated for the Artist of the Year by UNEAC, in Cuba, in 2002.

. Member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba since 2005.

. Finalist of the Miguel Viladrich Painting Biennial, Barcelona, Spain, in 2013.

. Finalist of the Benalmádena City Watercolor Contest, in Spain, in 2014.

. Finalist of the Casimiro Saínz National Painting Contest, in Spain, in 2015.

. Finalist of the Eugenio Hermoso National Painting Contest, in Spain, in 2016.

- Private collectors in Cuba, Mexico, the United States, Spain, Russia, France, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Hong Kong own his works.

The total dimensions of the flat canvas are 46.5 x 31.5 cm. It ships with an authenticity certificate, unframed, in a box, perfectly packed, protected with an international tracking number."