Claudio Bravo Chilean, 1936-2011
Torso, 1978

£5,500

Screenprint on paper
Signed and dated (lower right)
18 × 30 cm (image size), 34 × 46 cm (sheet size)
39 × 50 cm framed

A highly successful hyperrealist painter, who was was greatly influenced by Renaissance and Baroque artists, as well as Surrealist painters such as Salvador Dalí. He lived and worked in Tangier from the 1970s. He was known mainly for his paintings of still lifes and portraits but also a large amount of his work had an overtly homoerotic theme. This work is a screenprint of a Conté drawing titled 'Study Portrait of Mr Couchez', 1978.