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Javier CallejaJavier Calleja Drawing 1999 (early Javier Calleja)1999
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Javier Calleja 199 drawing:
A rare, early drawing by Javier Calleja featuring classic Calleja character stylings in a tropical setting.
Medium: Mixed media on paper.
Dimensions: 5.25 x 7 inches.
Very good overall vintage condition.
Unique.
Signed and dated on verso ‘J.C. 99’.
Provenance: Los Angeles Modern Auctions.
Javier Calleja was born in 1971 in Malaga where he lives and works nowadays.
Over the years Calleja worked with drawings, installations, sculptures, and paintings, often playing with the scale and perspective in his presentations. Working both in minuscule and large scale his installations were regularly focusing on beguiling the viewer as a significant part of the work.
After showing around Spain and the rest of Europe, it was his debut with Aisho Nanzuka in Hong Kong that for the first time debuted on his big-eyed boy characters. Originally imagined as visual representations of the artist's own feelings and experiences, they became his unmistakable signature. Over the years the characters evolved from drawings, over paintings, into sculptures and objects, almost exclusively depicting a boy in the transitional age between the teen and adolescence. With oversized, watery eyes, and subtle addition of red blush, Calleja's characters are little heroes who just overcame something painful and are about to smile again after crying.
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Takashi Murakami. Kaws. Kids room. Javier Calleja Once in my Life. Javier Calleja drawings. Javier Calleja prints.
- Creator:Javier Calleja (1971, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1999
- Dimensions:Height: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)
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- Gallery Location:NEW YORK, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU354316155662
Javier Calleja
Javier Calleja rose to art world prominence thanks to his instantly recognizable figurative works, which often feature squat, wide-eyed characters with exaggerated proportions. The Spanish artist’s practice spans painting, sculpture, and works on paper, as well as an array of editioned work and merchandise. Calleja has shown at galleries in Madrid, Barcelona, New York, Paris, and Hong Kong, among other major cities. A number of public collections throughout Spain have acquired his work. In March 2021, Calleja’s secondary-market record broke US$1 million for the first time, when his 2019 painting Waiting for a While sold for HK$8.8 million (US$1.1 million). Though he draws on personal experience and childhood memories to create his iconic characters, Calleja prefers not to explain his work, instead letting the observer “finish” the work with their own interpretations.
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