Aubrey Beardsley, 2023 , Guillermo Martin Bermejo

Pencil on old book paper

Size height 20.5cm x width 15cm

Framed size height 27.2cm x width 20.8cm

Signed verso

Unique

Guillermo Martin Bermejo is a Spanish artist based in the Sierra de Guadarrama near Madrid. He has numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2020, Madrid’s Museum of Contemporary Art acquired a series of twelve drawings for their collection. His works appear in several notable collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Conde Duque), Madrid; the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan; and the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Guillermo Martin Bermejo’s drawings reference old paintings and literature to create a personalised romantic world. Drawn in pencil, his works are both charming and deceptively naive. They present stylised portraits of figures from history, compositions in bucolic surroundings, or subtly altered sections of renowned artworks, and use the past as a poetic space into which to place the artist’s own life experiences and memories as if they were part of a long-lost legend or a chanson de geste. It is reminiscent of Stanley Spencer in their theatrical interpretation of every day. His images take place in environments that feel both dramatic and parochial.

Donated by Guillermo Martin Bermejo and James Freeman Gallery

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