Luis Caballero Colombian, 1943-1995
Untitled (Torso), 1987

£4,500

Charcoal on paper
Signed and dated (lower right)
105 × 73 cm (109 × 73 cm framed)

A Colombian painter, draughtsman and lithographer, known for his depictions of the male nude, with figures often in highly erotic, if not tortured, poses. He was one of the few Latin American artists of his time to be open about his sexuality, both before and after his relocation to Paris. From 1968 to his untimely death from AIDS in 1995, Caballero lived and worked in Paris. Caballero's pictures are exclusively devoted to the human body. 'In my paintings,' he wrote 'one is dos not know whether the figures are dying or having an orgasm'.