Accompanied by a certificate issued by Luisa Luz
Lansigan confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

ABOUT THE WORK

Unfolding through his trademark precisionist technique, Arturo Luz took control of architectural landscape pieces, and subjected them to a cool, sweeping, almost programmatic simplification. Building up from a format of stringed and whitened lines, tiered and massed together but spaced still, the structures bearing a symphonic linearism - this masterpiece entitled Cityscape Red is a continuation of Arturo Luz’s distinct style that luxuriously solidifies the work with a sense of rightness, the airily strung lines aligned luminously wherein the artist remained consistent with his idiom, taking only what he needs from his original architectural imagery in which Ben Nicholson, a British painter and sculptor whose Cubist - influenced works contributed to the history of abstraction, subscribed to the kind of art Luz himself might have found agreeable: “The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is both musical and architectural, where the architectural constructions is used to express a musical relationship between form, tone, and color, and whether this visual, musical relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract, for me, beside the point.” Definitely, these are the same qualities that define this magnificent work of Arturo Luz.