Cherries on Bobbin Lace
1.200 €
This medium-to-large format oil on canvas painting, dated 1992 by Spanish artist Almudena Fernández de Liencres (Málaga, 1960), is a superb example of her hyperrealistic virtuosity, articulated through a refined study of light and the poetics of form. The composition centers around a dazzling still life arranged upon a delicately woven bobbin lace cloth, where a stemmed glass bowl holds a generous arrangement of wild cherries and a velvety-skinned peach, while several red fruits masterfully scatter across the white linen in a dynamic and intimate rhythm. The artist's style stands out for its meticulously descriptive execution and exceptional technical rigor, highlighting the treatment of glassy transparencies, specular reflections on the cherries, and the microscopic construction of tactile textile textures in relief, creating a pronounced three-dimensionality reinforced by a tenebrist shadowed background in clear chiaroscuro. Regarding her influences, her artistic language draws directly from the preciousness of the Sevillian School and the master painters of the Spanish Golden Age still life, such as Juan van der Hamen or Zurbarán, while simultaneously linking to the luminist and illusionistic sensibilities of contemporary Spanish hyperrealism. Throughout her career, the works of Almudena Fernández de Liencres have been acclaimed by specialized critics and acquired by prestigious galleries, private collections both nationally and internationally, and institutional holdings across cultural organizations in Spain and Europe.
TechniqueOil sobre tela
Dimensions80x71cm
Year1992
ArtistFERNÁNDEZ DE LIENCRES, Almudena
FERNÁNDEZ DE LIENCRES, Almudena
The Spanish hyperrealist painter Almudena Fernández de Liencres (born in Malaga in 1960) is a figure of notable significance within contemporary detailed figuration; her artistic training began with an early vocational apprenticeship that she consolidated through disciplinary studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Seville, a city whose cultural and artistic heritage proved decisive in defining her visual language; during her university training, she drew from the teachings of influential professors and masters of the Andalusian academic sphere, professors of drawing and painting representative of the School of Seville who instilled in her a rigorous respect for anatomical structure, study from nature, and classical oil painting techniques; regarding her influences, her painting synthesizes the Spanish Baroque tradition of still life by masters like Zurbarán and Sánchez Cotán with the intimate realism of the contemporary School of Seville and the optical precision of key international hyperrealist figures such as Antonio López or Claudio Bravo; concerning her style, she stands out for a meticulous and methodical execution in service of an intricate realism in which she transcribes the smallest detail or fold of fabric with scrupulous fidelity, characterized by a refined composition where she does not clutter elements but arranges strictly essential ones to infuse them with a warm breath of intimacy far removed from cold mechanical reproduction; regarding the presence and destination of her work in museums and collections, her pieces have toured the most prestigious art galleries across Spain and internationally, with her works appearing in public and institutional collections such as the Contemporary Art Collection of the Regional Government of Andalusia, corporate bank art holdings, Andalusian cultural institutions, and distinguished private collections across Spain, Europe, and the United States.
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