Collection: Baruj Salinas

Salinas is quoted as saying: "Because of my connection and collaboration with poets and writers such as María Zambrano, José Angel Valente, Pere Gimferrer, and Michel Butor, I developed a concept of the language of the clouds. This consisted basically of a grey background with white as the main color of my palette–the white symbolizing clouds. I also used pictograms, ideograms, and strange alphabets like the Greek alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, and the Iberian alphabet". On another occasion Salinas was quoted as follows: "To me, painting is not work. It is something that transcends labor. I love to be in my studio painting because I forget about everything else. I’m so concentrated on it that it is like a meditation. I concentrate on what I’m doing and I enjoy it while I’m doing it. I enjoy seeing a wide space being developed into something that has life. It’s always been the most important thing in my life. And architecture was never so.”

Baruj Salinas is a Cuban Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1935. He studied at Kent State University in Ohio – Salinas found early success as a painter and engraver. He is also an educator, having taught fine art, for many years at Miami Dade College.

This gallery represents three contemporary artists, who we feel have significant investment potential, who's work can be considered "blue chip", who have the CV's and museum presence to back that up, and who this gallery considers to have both conceptual genius, and technical mastery. Think about this for a moment. How many contemporary artists can you say this about? These artists are Baruj Salinas, Francisco Toledo (his body of work can be seen on our Artnet site), and Ramon Alejandro. Raul Enmanuel has those qualities too, but without the major museum presence, therefore we cannot make a statement about his investment potential. 

Salinas is one of the most significant, and well established contemporary Latin Masters this gallery represents. He has work in the permanent collections of over 35 museums, and has had 150 solo shows worldwide, and a significant number of museum shows.

Salinas has work in the permanent collections of the following museums:

Art Museum of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Arte del Siglo XX, Casa de la Asegurada, Alicante, Spain.

Bacardi Collection, Miami, Fl

Beit Uri Museum, Israel. 

Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. 

Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland.

Cuban Museum of Art, Miami, Florida. 

Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain.

Fundación Maria Zambrano, Velez-Malaga, Spain.

Fundacion Miguel Aleman, Mexico City

Institute of International Education, New York, NY. 

Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

Musee Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France

John Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. 

Lowe Art Museum (Cuban Collection) Coral Gables, Fl.

McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. 

Museo Alvar Carrillo Gil, Mexico City

Ayuntamiento de Soria, Spain

Museo Arte Contemporaneo LatinoAmericano (MACLA), La Plata, Argentina.

Museo Cuevas, Mexico City

Museo de Arte Moderno, Ibiza, Spain.

Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City 

Museo de Villafames, Villafames, Spain.

Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 

Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia.

Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City

Museo Nacional D'Árt de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. 

Museum of Art, Budapest, Hungary.

Museum of the Americas (OAS), Washington, DC.

Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan.

Pemex Collection, Mexico City 

Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona. 

Public Library, City of Miami, Miami, Florida.

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.

University of Ohio Museum of Art, Miami, Ohio.

Villa de Montecatini Collection, Italy 

Museo Maria Zambrano, Velez-Malaga, Spain

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