Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

This work by National Artist Arturo Luz features a rare subject matter in the master’s canon. Employing his signature palette of black and white, Luz depicts five perfume bottles by which its distancing is harmonious to each other. A vertical cube and a horizon line underscore foreground and background, surface and depth, emphasizing their relative positions to each other. Despite the economy of details, no two bottles are exactly alike and each anchors the viewer’s attention in its own way, creating an implied web of connections. Its minimalism is uniquely Luz’s — a distillation of forms that captures the essence of everyday objects.