Accompanied by a certificate signed by Ms. Luisa Luz-Lansigan confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Predestined by his own character and personality are the paramount qualities in the canon of the oeuvre of National Artist Arturo Luz (1926 – 2021) - simplicity and austerity, tension and balance, order and harmony - all these effected through a rigorously disciplined approach to design, finally arriving at a clarity of vision and composition where not a strand of line or a flick of color is misplaced. Luz wields, as it were, a conductor’s baton over a symphonic assembly of intertwined lines, and subordination of color to earthen hues. Luz’s hand leads the viewer’s eyes through a thread of lines that spread across the canvas, where Rajasthan’s historical hill forts and battlements, mosques, and palaces emerged from access in the expansive horizon. The noble architecture of this Indian region is magisterially evoked in Luz’s Black Sun Rajasthan, attesting his complete absorption and mastery of the grid and the hatchwork.