$11,695
Acrylic on fiberglass, signed by Robert Plant 3100 mm by 1070 mm Mauricio Ortiz Mauricio is a well-kept secret of collectors worldwide who have been quietly acquiring his paintings in recent years. UK fans include Jamie Oliver, who commissioned a piece, and Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, who owns various large works including examples of the original shell series created for The Collection restaurant. He emerged from Costa Rica in 1990 into a patronage from The Delfina Studio Trust since when he lives and works in London. www.mauritium.com "My earliest recollections in childhood are of huge waves of inquisitive excitement as I was drawn more and more to characters of myth and the incredible. The sailors and pirates who talked of creatures half woman, half fish: were these the same characters who inhabited the Mediterranean? Ulysses was saved from the lure of these sirens by the pouring of hot wax into his ears whilst lashed to the mast of his ship off the island of Vedra. I extended this idea onto the graphics of my 2003 album 'Dreamland'. The design was appropriate because the album included a version of the magnificent Tim Buckley piece 'Song To the Siren' which contained some of the most evocative and beautiful lyrics relating to the blindness and helplessness of broken love. Love-adventure-kindness." Robert Plant June 2007 Armes Prydein, the title of the guitar, is a reference to a tenth-century poem of political prophecy. Armes Prydein was composed by an ecclesia Read more…
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2007-11-20
