Luis Melendez-Limited Edition hand embellished giclee on canvas. Stilllife with Pears Approx 26 x 38 canvas. Includes certificate of authenticity. Custom framed.

This is in excellent condition. Melendez painted his still-lifes with a serious sense of reverence. The grand themes did not attract him, but the ordinary stuff of every day life. Each still life painting is visually arresting and compelling and reveals a wonderful technical skill at constructing compositions. Melendez conveyed the precise texture of objects in artful compositions of great sophistication. Despite his talent he lived in poverty for most of his life. and in 1772 in a letter to the king he declared that he only owned his pencils. He died in Madrid in 1780.