Perellon/Orignal drawing illustrating the 3 Graces... Lot 291

Perellon/Orignal drawing illustrating the 3 Graces in a style influenced by surrealism. India ink and graphite. Signed. TBE+. 32 X 23 cm Celendonio Perellon (1926-2015) was a Madrid painter, engraver and illustrator considered one of the precursors of erotic art in Spain. He studied at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts and the San Fernando Higher School of Fine Arts, but since he was a boy, he painted on the floor of his father's bookbinding workshop. He was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts and Historical Sciences in Toledo, a city with which he was closely associated and in which he owns a house and studio in the San Cipriano district. His pictorial beginnings were in the realm of social realism, in which he stood out for the expressive force of his style. However, public recognition of his work as a whole placed him, along with Andrés Sillero and Eduardo Úrculo, among the initiators of erotic art in Spain. In this current, under the persistent pretext of female bodily beauty, he succeeded in recreating a personal world of dreams and symbols, which declare his surrealist love.