Kathy Wong
Senior Director, Fine Art
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Ronaldo Macedo(born 1965)Return to Lahaina Harbor 22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm) In the artist's frame.
6 August 2025, 12:00 PDT
Los AngelesUS$4,000 - US$6,000
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Ronaldo Macedo (born 1965)
Return to Lahaina Harbor
signed 'MACEDO' (lower left), signed again, dated and titled 'Ronaldo Macedo © 2001' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
In the artist's frame.
Painted in 2001.
signed 'MACEDO' (lower left), signed again, dated and titled 'Ronaldo Macedo © 2001' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
In the artist's frame.
Painted in 2001.
Footnotes
Provenance
Lahaina Galleries, Lahaina, Maui.
Bradford's Auction Gallery, Sun City, 19 January 2025, lot 3162.
We wish to thank the artist for his kind assistance with cataloging the lot.
Brazilian-born Ronaldo Macedo has lived and worked in Maui as a plein air painter for nearly forty years. He grew up as a teenager in California where he found a love for the outdoors as a river guide and surfer and developed artistic skills as a sign painter. Upon graduating from Cal State University, Long Beach with a degree in Illustration, he decided to make Maui his home in 1989. He apprenticed under the influential painter, surfer, and Lahaina Arts Society President George Allan, where he learned everything from stretching canvas to building frames to plein air techniques. Macedo founded the Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational in 2006 and has participated in juried and invitational shows such as the Carmel Plein Air Festival and Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational over the last two decades. Macedo has been represented by Lahaina Galleries since 1994, and resides at Puamana, Lahaina.
According to the artist, the work depicts the view to shore from the Lahaina Harbor breakwall. This view was often painted by Macedo's mentor/teacher/ friend, George Allan who passed in 2024. The blue boat is the Whale Mist 2 and the building in the background was the historic Pioneer Inn lost in the August 2023 Maui fire.