Author: Morales, Armando (1927-2011)
Title: Certificado de Authenticidad for "la Ultima Cena Del General Sandino
Description: Naucalpan, Mexico: Alejandro Ehrenberg-Artegrafías Limitadas, 1993. Certificate of Authenticity for the lithograph with details of the edition on thick paper. Armando Morales is Nicaragua’s – perhaps Central America’s – most famous painter. “Like a mythical figure,” said historian María Dolores Torres, “[he was] a constant source of inspiration for Nicaraguan painters.” Morales was born in 1927 in Granada. He was interested in art as a young boy, and frequently sketched the tools and other objects sold in his father’s hardware store. By the age of eleven, he was already producing impressive landscapes and still lifes. From 1941 to 1945, he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA) in Managua. One of his favorite teachers was Augusto Fernández, who had fled to Nicaragua after the Spanish Civil War. From 1948 to 1953, he studied under Rodrigo Peñalba (1908-1979), the school’s new director. Peñalba called his student “indisputably the greatest of our painters.” He said, “Morales has passed through various periods, from the semi-abstraction of his initial successes, to pure abstraction and- a lyrical realism, full of mastery, and sober, but richly chromatic.” Artegrafías Limitadas was a renowned print workshop based in Mexico City that operated from 1982 to 2005. Under the direction of its founder, Alejandro Ehrenberg, the shop produced original fine prints in limited editions for more than 100 artists, using the techniques of etching and engraving on metal plates as well as hand-pulled stone lithography. Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto. .

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