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          Born outside Havana in , this recently rediscovered Cuban-American artist emigrated to Miami around , eventually settling in New York and finally.

        1. Born outside Havana in , this recently rediscovered Cuban-American artist emigrated to Miami around , eventually settling in New York and finally.
        2. Born outside of Havana, Cuba in , Felipe Jesus Consalvos was a Cuban-American artist who emigrated to Miami around eventually settling in New York.
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        4. Twentieth-century Cuban-American artist Felipe Jesus Consalvos worked in a cigar factory, where he collected the colorful papers that became the materials for.
        5. Felipe Jesús Consalvos was a Cuban artist who was born in Their work is currently being shown at The Gallery of Everything in London.

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          Felipe Jesus Consalvos

          Cuban-American artist

          Felipe Jesus Consalvos ( &#; c. ) was a Cuban-American cigar roller and artist, known for his posthumously discovered body of artwork based on the vernacular tradition of cigar-band collage.

          Life

          Felipe Jesus Consalvos was born near Havana, Cuba in and grew up on the farm of his mother's family.[1] He married, moved to Havana, and later emigrated with his family to Miami around , eventually moving to Brooklyn and finally to Philadelphia, where he is believed to have died sometime in the s or s.[2] Consalvos worked for much of his life as a factory cigar roller.[3][4]

          Art

          A large body of Consalvos' art work was discovered in at a Philadelphia garage sale.

          The body of work consists of over collages on paper, found photographs, musical instruments, furniture, and other objects.[4] Consalvos' playful and often subversively political work—on which he is thought to have collabor