By Luis Feito López
Located in Madrid, ES
LUIS FEITO LÓPEZ
Spanish, 1929
ABSTRACTO 1956
signed and dated "FEITO, 1956" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
17-3/4 X 25-3/4 inches (45 X 65 cm.)
framed: 24 X 32 (60,5 X 81 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Sotheby´s Olympia, London
Sale date : 26th June 2002
This work of 1956 entitled "ABSTRACTO", within the parameters of automatism with white and ocher colored math surfaces, made with a mixture of oil and sand.
In this work, the graphics had already disappeared from Feito's painting, replaced very much in the spirit of the time with an interest focused on the subject.
Elements then arise that have to play a very significant role in their evolution, such as circular shapes. Progressively matter begins to focus on nuclei.
In 1950 Luis Feito entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando de Madrid, this being a brief figurative period, followed by cubist experimentation. Four years later he made his first individual exhibition with non-figurative trend work, in the Buchholz Gallery, Madrid. He also exhibits at the Santa Fe Gallery (Madrid) .1
From this moment Feito regularly exhibits in the most important cities in the world, such as Madrid, Paris, Milan, New York, Helsinki, Tokyo, Rome, etc.
After completing his studies he settled in Paris in 1956, with a scholarship that allows him to study avant-garde painting, which does not prevent him from maintaining his contacts with the group of painters who would later form in the El Paso group. Receive influences from automatism and material painting.
In 1957, the formation of the El Paso group took place, of which he was one of the founders, along with the painters Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares and Rafael Canogar, and the writers Manuel Conde and José Ayllón. Subsequently they were joined by painters Manuel Rivera, Manuel Viola and sculptor Martín Chirino...
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1950s Abstract Luis Feito López Art