Alejandro, Jose Ramon

(1943 Havana- ) (Cuba / Canada)

   aka Alejandro, Ramon Painter, engraver, and illustrator. Studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Buenas Aires and Montevideo. Trained in the studio of the engraver Fried-lander. His work has a distinct surreal quality and often incorporated torture devices.

   Reproductions: Hearts; watercolor; Solow, 1980: p. 60 . Jack-in- the-box; ink; Kronhausen, 1968: 175 [B]. Mars, Venus, and Eros; watercolor; Solow, 1980: p. 60 [B]. [Phallic headed figure at a bar]; ink; Kron-hausen, 1970c: p. 94 [B] / 6-65: p. 202 [B]. Phallic island; ink; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 174 [B] / Kro-nhausen, 1970c: p. 95 [B]. [Phallic octopus]; ink; Kronhausen, 1970c: p. 94 [B]. Two out of three ain't bad; pen and ink; Solow, 1980: p. 60 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 1: p. 273; Orlando Gonzalez-Esteva and Ramon Alejandro, Cuerpos en bandeja: frutas y erotismo en Cuba, Libros de la espiral, no. 5 (Mexico: Artes de Mexico, 1998), 126 p., ill.