Vntg Authenticated Framed Painting Fine Art Museum Quality Signed Romeo Tabuena

Actual Painting Only Height- 25" Wide- 19 1/2" Painting including frame Height- 28 1/2" Wide- 23" Artist Romeo Villalva Tabuena. Date of birth and death- 1921-2015 Portrait of Hooded Woman. Medium- Oil and tempera on Masonite. Signed and dated 1959 on lower right. Insurance replacement- $7,500. In 1955, Tabuena settled in Mexico where he lived with his Norwegian wife Nina. However, he retained his Philippine citizenship. He painted the mural Filipiniana in the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. In 1965, he participated in the Eighth São Paulo Art Biennial as the official Filipino artist and as the art commissioner from the Philippines. The Honolulu Museum of Art holds his painting Carabao, which is typical of the artist's animal paintings. Filipino postwar Neo-realist painter and printmaker Romeo Tabuena experienced life, education, and culture around the globe, from his birthplace in Southeast Asia to his residence in Mexico. Active in the Philippine Art Gallery, which opene