Fausto de Lima
Usaro con Flaminghi
Fausto de Lima
(1923-1994)
Oil on canvas
Signed
28 x 39 inches
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Fausto de Lima is recognized for his remarkable sense of color and the fantastic imagery of his subjects which present somewhat of a puzzle to the viewer. His pictures most often are caricatures of the Church and State which are masked in a hidden iconography. He uses his brush and pallet knife to create these images on everything from fine linen canvas to rough sackcloth.
Fausto de Lima, who has been called “the Spanish artist who sunk into oblivion”, was born in Madris in 1923 and died in Alcalá de Henares in 1994. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and had his first show in that city in 1942. He, however, at first pursued a career in journalism and was an art critic for almost two decades before he took up painting with a passion. He participated in an exhibition at the Galleria Ateneo in Palma de Mallorca, the major city and port of Majorca, in 1958, winning a prize. By 1960 he had stopped writing and began painting full-time. From 1961 to 1964 he had his own shows at the Galleria Libros in Saragoza (1961), the Galleria Céspedes in Cordoba (1962) and the Galleria Fortuni (1962) and Galleria Forum (1963, 1964) in Madrid. But it was his first show outside of Spain at the Galleria d’Arte in Florence, Italy which established de Lima as a well-known artist. Tourists, especially American visitors, to Florence visited the gallery. By 1970 de Lima was an international success and his paintings were selling well in the United States and elsewhere.
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