The Boat and the moon
acrylic on canvas SOLD private auction by new dominion oil company
Banana man
Oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm painted in cuba 2004
Portrait of Luis Hernández in the world of Cuban trova, almost no one will recognize him, but if he talks about El Plátano, just like that, everyone will discover the indefatigable photographer who for more than four decades immortalized the most famous faces of the song and of the young troubadours who began to defend the heritage of this cultural manifestation.
The Paris Gentleman
Oil on canvas 100x60 cm sold private collection Cuba
portrait of José María López Lledín was an elegant vagabond known as El Caballero de Paris ("The Gentleman From Paris") who wandered the streets of Havana and was a well-known cult figure.
The next one
Covid 19 have been one of the worse pandemic in these past years for humanity Pantoja’s new work, The Next One, depicts a Cuban man wearing a Soviet-era gas mask, a comment on how the Cuban people are struggling to survive COVID-19 just as they have the brutal Castro dictatorship the past 60 years.
Heavy Load
Oil on canvas 60x48 in painted in Tulsa Oklahoma 2014
In this surreal painting Pantoja represents the dictator Fidel Castro as a giant man traveling on a boy’s tricycle pull by turtles moving slowly and carrying the old destroyed Havana city on his back..