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VITREA

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Lluís Lleó
1961-

VITREA

2015
40 x 31 inches (101.6 x 78.7 cm)
Graphite and ink on bhutan mitsumata thin paper.
2015.144

Gift of Marea Morange Selig, on behalf of her late mother, Marion M. Selig.

Notes
A self-taught artist born into a family of painters, Lluís Lleó has absorbed influences from Catalan Romanesque architecture, early medieval art, and Renaissance art. He often employs classical techniques (including working in fresco) to execute large-scale geometrically abstract images. VITREA demonstrates Lleó's enduring concern for drawing. One of a series of forty-five drawings, each entitled after a type of the butterfly species Morpho achilles, is a tribute to Lleó's friend and patron Marion Selig, who passed away in 2015. The bottom half of the drawing suggests the wings of a butterfly, while the linear band above it exposes the organic pulp of the paper yielding a sense of pure form and spirituality. Lleó saturates the thin, absorbent paper with ink and graphite to give the surface a shimmering quality that evokes the flight of a butterfly. The artist has works in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid as well as in private collections in Spain and France.
Classification
Century Drawings