Roberto PANDOLFI
Roberto Pandolfi is a contemporary Cuban-born artist recognized for his paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works. His art often incorporates vivid color, symbolic elements, and a balance between realism and abstraction. Working internationally, Pandolfi has explored subjects ranging from urban scenes to still lifes, reflecting both personal narratives and broader cultural themes. His style blends expressive brushwork with careful composition, creating pieces that invite both emotional and visual engagement.
ROBERTO PANDOLFI. ORIGINAL DRAWING. Signed bottom right
Artist: Roberto Pandolfi (Argentine, 20th–21st century)
Medium: Ink and colored pencil (or pastel) on paper
Dimensions: 60 × 47 cm
Description:
Original drawing by Roberto Pandolfi depicting a fantastical figure composed of serpentine and humanoid elements. The central face, surrounded by sinuous, coiling forms and appendages, appears both mechanical and organic. Set against a vivid magenta background, the composition bursts with electric hues—neon yellows, blues, and reds—evoking a psychedelic or dreamlike state.
Pandolfi’s work merges Latin American symbolism with a personal surrealist language, often exploring dualities—man and beast, spirit and matter, inner and outer vision. In this piece, the creature’s hypnotic gaze and winding body suggest transformation, control, and introspection. The composition’s playful menace and intense chromatic contrasts reflect Pandolfi’s unique voice in contemporary visionary art.


UNKNOWN ARTIST
Circa 1800-1820
Original Item: One of a Kind. Here we have a wonderful original bronze lantaka swivel cannon barrel, dating to about 1800-1820. While these were used throughout South East Asia, this style is from the “East Indies”, more properly known as South Eastern Asia. These were used only at close quarters, used to fire lead balls, stones and other debris while mounted on boats and other ocean going craft during the age of Sailing.
The cannon is very heavy, weighing in at 33lbs, a good sign as later copies are much lighter and sometimes are filled internally with foam to be sold as fakes.
Totally authentic but not too big to display in home or office.
Dimensions:
Lantaka or rentaka was a type of bronze portable cannon or swivel gun, sometimes mounted on merchant vessels and warships in Maritime Southeast Asia. It was commonly equipped by native seafaring vessels from Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, and Malaysia. Lela and rentaka are known by the Malays as meriam kecil (lit. "small cannon"), the difference is that rentaka is smaller in length and bore than a lela.