Latin American Master Drawings

Roberto Matta, Agustín Fernández, Claudio Bravo, Wifredo Lam, Diego Rivera, Fernando Botero

Leon Tovar Gallery is pleased to announce the extension of its exhibition Latin American Master Drawings. The Gallery’s display brings together a wide range of graphic practices found among the foremost draftsmen of twentieth-century Latin American Modernism. Though many of the Gallery’s selected artists found great success in the painting medium, drawing was an integral component of their larger bodies of work, and each produced innovative and technically exemplary works on paper. Latin American Master Drawings showcases the rich variety of approaches that many of the century’s central figures have found within the medium.

Highlights include an early drawing by the Surrealist Roberto Matta titled Saint Sebastian ou la doucer de la vie, which revels in the frenzy and drama that would come to characterize his paintings. Mantegna, Durer, Titian, Botticelli, and El Greco are only a few of the many artists who have depicted the arrow-pierced early Christian martyr, and here the Chilean offers his own unique interpretation of this well-rehearsed art historical theme. Drawings by the Cuban artist contemplative compositions that explore the position of the subject in relation to the Agustín Fernández present metaphysical, world at large. These works are delicately rendered, innovative explorations of the drawing medium, which Fernández understood to be foundational to some aspects of his painting mode. Compositions by such figures as Wifredo Lam, Diego Rivera, and Claudio Bravo are also on view.