19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Property from a Private Florida Collection
LUIS RICARDO FALERO | THE POPPY FAIRY
Lot Closed
June 11, 04:07 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Florida Collection
LUIS RICARDO FALERO
Spanish
1851 - 1896
THE POPPY FAIRY
signed FALERO and dated 1888 (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 39 ⅜ by 21 ½ in.; 100 by 54.5 cm
framed: 44 ⅜ by 26 5⁄8 in.; 112.7 by 67.6 cm
Sale: Christie's, South Kensington, January 21, 2015, lot 86, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale
Luis Falero was born in Granada, trained in Paris as a portraitist and settled in London in the 1880s, where he developed a fascination for painting highly detailed renderings of the female nude. His hyper-realist style often set women in fantastical, mythological, or astronomical settings.