Cuban artist gets $3.2M for Delray Beach 5BD

Medium 7cccc094b825adf33f0c48a5c77e3635 Enrique Martinez Celaya and Alexandra Williams sold a five-bedroom, 5.5-bath home at 106 Basin Drive in Delray Beach to Robert and Kathryn Kithas Stewart for $3.2 million on Dec. 1.

Celaya and Williams paid $2.875 million for the property in May 2006. The 6,095-square-foot house was built in 1941 in Delray Beach East. It is located in the Ocean Breeze Estates subdivision.

Mr. Celaya is an internationally renowned Cuban-born artist. His works consists of paintings, sculpture, photography and poetry. In 1998, he created Whale and Star, a publishing house in Delray Beach.

He received his B.S. from Cornell University in New York in 1986, his M.S. in quantum electronics from the University of California-Berkeley in 1989 and his M.F.A. in painting and sculpture from University of California-Santa Barbara in 1994. He also attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine.

According to BlockShopper.com, there have been 1,115 home sales in Delray Beach during the last 12 months, with a median sales price of $135,800.

Address: 106 Basin Drive
Buyer(s): Robert Stewart and Kathryn Kithas Stewart
Seller(s): Enrique Martinez Celaya and Alexandra Williams
Sale date: Dec. 1, 2010

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