ALEJANDRO ROBAINA - PRINTED ART SIGNED IN INK 03/28/1998 CO-SIGNED BY: MARCOS M. YAVER - HFSID 209721
Price: $400.00
ALEJANDRO ROBAINA
Cuba's most revered tobacco grower, Robaina signed a printed drawing
of his tobacco fields
Printed Art signed: "Alejandro Robaina". Reproduction of a pen
and ink drawing, 7½x10 overall, image 5¾x8¼ (one surface). Captioned at bottom
in pencil: "'Vega De Tabaco'/Pinar Del Rio, Cuba." "P/A 27-3-98"
and "Marcos" also handwritten at bottom margin. Cuban cigar grower
Robaina (1919-2010) was Cuba's most revered tobacco grower; his leaves
wrapped some of the best cigars in the world. Robaina reportedly smoked his
first cigar at the tender age of nine and started working on his family's
40-acre tobacco plantation, which has been in continuous operation since 1845.
He had a role in the privatization of Cuban tobacco farms after the 1959
revolution, when Fidel Castro nationalized many large farms. Robaina was
allowed to keep his farm, as long as he produced for the state, and his
yields were consistently higher than state farms. Nowadays, almost all of
the nation's farms are private, and they pattern their business after Robaina's
farm. Cuba honored him in the 1990s with an award personally presented by
Castro and, in 1997, the state tobacco monopoly Habanos SA introduced the
Vegas Robaina, making him the first living person to have a cigar named after
him. Fine condition.
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