Rastro de una Neuva Aurora (Trace of a New Dawn)
24 cms x 22 cms (9.45 ins x 8.66 ins)
Signed, titled and dated verso
made in 1990
Lot offered for sale by Saskatchewan NAC, Regina at the auction event "Saskatchewan and Canadian Art" held on Sun, Oct 27, 2024.
Lot 198
Lot 198
Estimate: CAD $1,000 - $1,200
Sale price withheld by the Auction house
Sale price withheld by the Auction house
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Donated and being sold on behalf of Habitat for Humanity Saskatoon, with this Saskatchewan charity receiving 90% of the winning bid
Notes:
Fernando Llort was born in 1949 in San Salvador, El Salvador. As a youth he studied ceramics with master Cesar Sermeno, and then studied architecture at University of El Salvador. After a brief time studying religion in a seminary in Medillin, Columbia, Llort attended the University of Toulouse, in France, and earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. During this time in France he also worked on art, and held his first exhibitions. Llort then studied at at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) before returning to El Salvador in 1971. Based in La Palma for much of the 1970s Llort's work is part of the Estilo Palmeno, a sort of Naive art focused on narrative, religious and indigenous symbols and bright colours. Fernando Llort died in 2018 in La Palma, El Salvador. He has been dubbed "El Savladore's National Artist".
Donated and being sold on behalf of Habitat for Humanity Saskatoon, with this Saskatchewan charity receiving 90% of the winning bid
Notes:
Fernando Llort was born in 1949 in San Salvador, El Salvador. As a youth he studied ceramics with master Cesar Sermeno, and then studied architecture at University of El Salvador. After a brief time studying religion in a seminary in Medillin, Columbia, Llort attended the University of Toulouse, in France, and earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. During this time in France he also worked on art, and held his first exhibitions. Llort then studied at at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) before returning to El Salvador in 1971. Based in La Palma for much of the 1970s Llort's work is part of the Estilo Palmeno, a sort of Naive art focused on narrative, religious and indigenous symbols and bright colours. Fernando Llort died in 2018 in La Palma, El Salvador. He has been dubbed "El Savladore's National Artist".
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.