BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPH BY CUBAN MASTER ABELARDO MORELL FRAMED - PUBLISHED IN BOOK CAMERA OBSCURA EDITION 5/30 Start Price USD 4,000.00 Current Price USD 4,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, July 03, 2008 End Time Thursday, July 10, 2008 Location New York, New York See more about 'BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPH BY CUBAN MASTER ABELARDO MORELL' Description You are bidding on a fantastic original Well Framed Photograph (executed in 2002), Limited Edition (5//30), by Master Cuban Photographer Abelardo Morell  (Cuban, 1948).   This photograph is published in Morell's book "Camera Obscura", page 103.   ABELARDO MORELL (Cuban, 1948 ) There are hundreds of links, notes and articles on the web about this amazing photographer. Feel free to do your own search and learn more about his amazing life and art (artnet, artprice, etc) and most importantly how much his work sells for worldwide. This Photograph has a very reasonable price in comparison to the prices offered at Art Galleries for his work ($10,000+) and Auction Galleries. The cheapest recent comparable (same series) photo sold at auction house (Phillips de Pury New York) for $7,000 with auction fees not included (usually 20% on top of the sale price).   I have enclosed below an excellet biography about his life and art history.   I bought it at Cuba Art, an art bennefit event in New York (this item was donated by the artist).   Here are the details about this image:   Abelardo Morell Cuban - b.1948 Inscribed on verso: "Camera Obscura Image of Havana, Looking Southeast in Room with Ladder" Dated 2002 Signed "Abelardo Morell" on lower left Verso (see picture)   Image Size:                 18" High x 22 1/5” Wide – 45.7cm High x 57.2cm Wide Sheet:                          20" High x 24" Wide - 50.8cm High x 61cm Wide Frame:                        21” High x 25” wide / 53.3cm high x 63.5cm wide   OFFERED FRAMED       CONDITION REPORT: The overall condition is excellent.   (See pictures and feel free to ask me for any additional images). Overall the condition of the frame and matt is also excellent.   PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM OFFERING USPS PRIORITY MAIL BUT STRONGLY SUGGEST BUYER TO HAVE IT SHIPPED BY FEDEX OR UPS BECAUSE THEY WILL FULLY INSURE THE ITEM (USPS IS LIMITED UP TO $1,000) IF THE BUYER'S CHOICE IS USPS I WILL ONLY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAXIMUM INSURANCE AMOUNT ($1,000)   PLEASE READ THIS: I am an extremely honest person and have excellent reputation and feedback on ebay (feel free to check it). I will make everything possible to make any ebay transaction a smooth and positive experience. I will also try to describe the item as accurate as possible. Feel free to ask me any questions and for additional photos.   I’ll be offering other important images, paintings, photographs and antiques on ebay.   I only offer unique high quality items bought from very diverse sources, collections and estates.   Bid with confidence.   Good Luck     Abelardo Morell Biography Born:Cuba, 1948Lives:Brookline, MABiographyBorn in Cuba, Abe Morell moved with his family to New York City at the age of fourteen. He began his photographic experience at Bowdoin College as a street photographer influenced by such luminaries as Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson. After earning an MFA from Yale University in 1981, he began teaching at Massachusetts College of Art in 1983, where he still teaches today. After the birth of his first child, Brady, in 1986, Morell's work turned toward his domestic environment exploring this new landscape from his son's perspective. Morell's images of toys, household objects, and books, as well as the camera obscura photographs have been widely exhibited and collected by museums throughout the United States. Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye, organized by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, traveled to six venues including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Books of his work include a catalogue for the aforementioned exhibition (1999), A Camera in a Room: Photographs by Abelardo Morell (1995), Face to Face: Photographs at the Gardner Museum (1998), and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1999).     Cintas Foundation Fellowship   New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship   John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship   St. Botolph's Club Foundation Award   Professor of Photography Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA   Artist-in-Residence The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA   Artist-in-Residence The Boston Athenaeum   Birth Havana, Cuba   Education: Master of Fine Arts Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT   Education: Bachelor of Arts Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Selected Exhibitions 2003   “Twilight”, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 2003   “Celebrating Central Park 1953-2003” Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY 2003   “Contemporary Photographs and Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection,” Colby College Museum of Art, ME 2002   “Paris Photo 2002”, Caroussel de Louvre, Paris, France 2002   “What were you Thinking? 15 Years of Photographs”, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2002   “Into the Woods”, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC 2002   “Through the Looking Glass”, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2002   “Visions from America”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 2002   “Sitelines: Art on Main”, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 2002   “Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA 2002   Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2002   Oakland Museum of California, Oakland 2002   “What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 2002   “New Work,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY 2002   “Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye,” George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 2002   “Camera Obscura”, Shine Gallery, London, UK 2001   “Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye,” Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, VA 2001   Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 2001   “Paris Photo 2001”, Caroussel de Louvre, Paris, France 2001   “Can You Believe Your Eyes?” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA 2001   “Voyages (per) Formed,” Photographic Resource Center, Boston University 2001   “The Crafted Image: Nineteenth Century Techniques in Contemporary Photography,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA 2001   “Pin:Whole”, University of Essex, Colchester, UK 2001   “Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” Orlando Museum of Fine Art, Orlando, FL 2001   “Photograph + Monograph,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NY 2001   “Still Light,” Beadleston Gallery, NY 2001   “City: Prints and Photographs,” Brooke Alexander, NY 2001   “La Luz,” National Hispanic Cultural Center, NM 2000   “The Universe Next Door,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York 2000   “Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye”, The St. Louis Art Museum 2000   LeHigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA 2000   “University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2000   “Staged and Manipulated: Photographic Fictions from St. Louis Collections,” The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO 2000   Museum of the City of NY New York, NY 2000   AirConditioned, , Bonni Benrubi Gallery New York, NY 2000   Bonni Benrubi Gallery New York, NY 1999   Abelardo Mroell and the Camera Eye, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 1999   Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA 1999   Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye, Museum of Fine Art Boston, MA 1999   Metropolitan Museum of Art Tokyo, Japan 1998   Waterproof, Parque EXPO '98 Lisbon, Portugal 1998   Face to Face, Elizabeth Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA 1998   Bonni Benrubi Gallery New York, NY 1998   Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc. New York, NY 1998   Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago, IL 1997   Family and Friends, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL 1997   Tokyo Biennial, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art Tokyo, Japan 1996   Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco, CA 1996   Light, Time, Focus, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL 1996   New in the Nineties, Katonah Museum of Art Katonah, NY 1996   Blue Sky Gallery Portland, OR 1996   Winter Blindspot, Yancey Richardson Gallery NYC 1995   Spaces for the Self: The Symbolic Imagery of Place, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL 1995   Degrees of Abstractions: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 1995   The Photographic Condition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA 1995   Warren Street Gallery Hudson, NY 1995   Southeast Museum of Photography Daytona, FL 1995   An American Century of Photography, Int'l Center of Photography/Hallmark Photo. Coll. NYC 1995   Looking at Books, Boston Athenaeum Boston, MA 1995   Robert Klein Gallery Boston, MA 1995   Jan Abrams Gallery Los Angeles, CA 1995   Jackson Fine Art Atlanta, GA 1994   Bonni Benrubi Gallery NYC 1993   The National Arts Club NYC 1989   Becker Gallery, Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME 1988   North Gallery Boston, MA 1988   Midtown Literature 2002    Spirit of Family: Al and Tipper Gore, Henry Holt Publishers, 2002 1998    Alice’sAdventures in Wonderland, Illustrated with photographs by Abelardo Morell, Introduction by Leonard Marcus, Published by Dutton’s Children’s Books, New York, 1998 1996    Making It Real, (catalogue) Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, 1996 Introduction by Luc Sante and essay by guest curator Vik Muniz 1995    Aperture (Issue141), “Cuba: Image and Imagination” ,Fall, 1995 1995    Feels Like Home, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995 1995    An American Century of Photography: From Dryplate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Keith F. Davis, Hallmark Cards, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, 1995 1994    MoMA, Magazine of the Museum of Modern Art, “New Photography 10,” essay by Sheryl Conkelton, No. 18, Fall-winter, 1994. 1993    In Camera (brochure), Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM., 1993. Essay by Eugenia Parry Janis 1993    Photography by Cintas Fellows (catalogue) Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, FL, 1993. Essay by Manuel E. Gonzalez 1993    Photo National (catalogue), Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, 1993 1992    Photography 1992 Exhibition (catalogue), Berkshire Museum of Art, Pittsfield. 1992    Fables of the Visible World (catalogue), Huntington Gallery, Boston, MA, 1992. 1992    More Than One Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1992. 1991    Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, New York 1991. 1990    Contemporary American Art from the Philip Morris Collection (catalogue), Knoxville Museum of Art 1990. 1988    20th Century Photographs from the Collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (catalogue), University of Southern Maine, 1988 Place a Bid!