A sketcher, caricaturist and writer, Armando Maribona was schooled at the San Alejandro Academy as well as in Paris. Although he became well-known for his illustrations and sketches, Maribona also produced many beautiful oil painting cityscapes of Havana, and was also recognized for his portraits painted in Cuba and all over the world.

As much as he was an artist, Maribona was also a journalist. From 1916-1921, he worked for a number of newspapers, and eventually became a correspondent for a naval newspaper in Paris. This affiliation with newsprint took him all over the world, and he gained many prizes for his journalistic works. In his wake, he also left countless drawings and sketches of the caricatures and cartoons he would submit to newspapers and magazines. Like most caricatures, his were full of humor and satire and would often touch on the Batiste regime of the time. Aside from all of this, Maribona also illustrated for posters and magazines, and even created a number of informational pamphlets.

During his lifetime, Maribona held a number of exhibitions in Cuba as well as in New York and Paris. He was a very intelligent man, skilled at writing and the arts and published a number of novels, and spoke English, French and Spanish. Maribona would also later go on to become a teacher at San Alejandro in 1927.

Today, Maribona’s work is housed in museums and private collections worldwide. Because he traveled and sketched endlessly, the possibility of one of his works being pressed between the pages of a book or in a drawer somewhere are great. His works may likely be found in the United States, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, France, Mexico and of course, Cuba.

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