Luis Feito

LUIS FEITO (Madrid, 1929- 2021).
Untitled.
Silkscreen on Guarro paper. Copy 40/100.
Edited by Círculo de Bellas Artes.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 100 x 70 cm.
The Spanish painter Luis Feito, was a key figure of the Spanish abstraction and founding member of the group El Paso, fundamental group for the artistic renovation of the postwar period. After his first solo exhibition in 1954 at the Buchholz gallery in Madrid, he began an international career that led him to exhibit in cities such as Paris, New York, Milan, Tokyo and Rome. That same year he was appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, although he soon abandoned teaching to move to Paris on a scholarship to study the avant-garde of the time. There he was influenced by automatism and matter painting, which were decisive for his artistic evolution.
Throughout his career he received numerous awards, such as the Order of Arts and Letters of France (1985) and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (1998). His work is part of important international collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, consolidating his place as one of the great representatives of Spanish abstract art of the twentieth century.