Canvas Reproduction, Luis Ricardo Falero : Seduction, Reclining Nude

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Falero was an erotic artist. He made explicitly sexual art for private collectors and for use in titilating advertisements. When his work was exhibited in London it was shown behind closed doors and advertised via suggestive fliers—the way strip clubs advertise today.

Falero was born in 1851 in Granada, to José María Falero and Juana Adelaida Candelarese. They were well-to-do and had big plans for young Luis, sending him at age six to take courses in English and watercolor painting at Richmond College in London. Two years later, Falero traveled to Paris to continue his education, and finally, at age 15, returned to Granada to begin his training for a career in the Spanish Navy. A year later, Falero abandoned his military schooling, sneaking back to Paris where he studied mechanical engineering and chemistry at the National Museum of Natural History, joined the Belgian Society of Electricity, and eventually founded the International Society of Electricians. Apparently Falero’s experiments with electricity nearly killed him, and he turned to his artistic training for a less lethal career option.

To hone his skills, Falero studied under the orientalist and portrait-painter Gabriel Ferrier, whose influence is visible in Falero’s love of ethereal, floating figures, and developed a love of astronomy through his friendship with French astronomer Camille Flammarion, whose books Falero contributed illustrations to. Falero quickly found his niche in a community of ex-patriate Spanish artists living in France, including the romantic artist Vicente González and the orientalist scholar and poet Angelo de Gubernatis, who described Falero’s personal reinvention, calling him “a Spaniard who, thanks to women, had become Parisian.” Falero soon developed a distinctive style, synthesizing orientalist portraiture, the delicate brushwork of the academic nude, the fanciful eroticism of liquor advertisements, and a fascination with witches, nymphs and fairies.

And Falero got popular. His sensitivity in rendering the human form won him placement in many of the Paris Salons from 1877 to 1886, and in 1887, the thirty-seven year old artist moved to England to take his career to the next level. In London, Falero married the beautiful María Cristina Spinelli, 14 years his junior, and moved into a large studio at No. 100 Fellows Road, where they lived with a cook, a mail, and a dog that strolled the halls and announced the visitor’s to the increasingly popular studio. Soon, Falero was exhibiting work all over England, in the Grosvenor Gallery of Sheffield, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Lifford Gallery in Westminster, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and selling paintings to liquor and watch brands. In 1888, Falero unveiled his masterpiece, a 120 sq ft canvas titled “The Nightmare” which was shown in the Gainsborough Gallery in Bond Street, London’s respected art-hub, with a cover-charge of one shilling. The Nightware was shown a handful of times over the next five years, earning praise from the press and admission-fees from eager audiences.

Late in Falero’s surprisingly short life, the artist declined in popularity and personal judgment. A pair of paintings Allegory of Paintingand Allegory of Sculpture were mocked by the press, the allegorical figures compared to barmaids, and the artist’s treatment of nudity fell under critical structiny. Falero’s final failing began on June of 1894, when the forty-three year old artist hired fifteen year old Maud Annie Louise Harvey as a housemaid, and then model, kicking off an eight month affair. Maud was fired when Falero’s wife discovered their relationship, but she was already pregnant. Falero eventually lost a long legal battle over paternity and was charged with paying five shillings a week to Maud in child support. Only a year later, in 1896, Falero died during a failed surgical intervention for an unknown medical issue, at the University College Hospital in London. He was 45 years old.

A reclining nude in landscape format by famous spanish artist Luis Ricardo Falero for the discerning art collector. From our carefully curated range of gallery quality canvas reproductions of famous paintings. These fine art giclee prints are available in a range of sizes with choice of framing:

  • rolled canvas with extra white border (you can then have this stretched and framed locally)
  • gallery wrapped canvas panels ready to hang - no frame needed as the image is mirror printed on all 4 edges
  • stretched canvas panels expertly framed in ornate silver or gold solid wood frames

All frames are made from responsibly sourced wood and are made in our Nottinghamshire workshop.

We use the highest quality heavyweight, seedless cotton rich canvas and the latest wide format giclee printers with a print resolution of 1200dpi to make every nuance, shadow and detail (including age related patina, like craquelure) as fine and detailed as the original.

SIZING

 Sizes refer to the canvas image area.

  • Gold and Silver Frames are approximately 2 inches wide and 1.5 inches deep.
  • The unframed canvas panels are approximately 1.5 inches deep and the image is mirrored on all 4 sides.
  • Rolled canvas has an additional 2-3 inch white border on all sides. 

All prints are made using archival art stocks and UV pigment inks to give up to 200 years life. 

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Size and Printed Materials

Fine art papers are printed without any additional white border Please let us know at the time of ordering if you would like a small additional white border.

Rolled canvas options have an additional white border of approximately 2.5 inches (7cm) on all 4 sides to aid stretching.

Ready to hang canvas panels are stretched on 1.5 inch deep solid pine frames from sustainable forestry sources. The image is mirrored on all 4 sides to give an aesthetically pleasing finish.

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Why not have us gift wrap your order and attach a personalised message to the recipient. Available for all orders. Each order is hand wrapped in high quality gift wrap with meatllic ribbon and bow. Your personalised message is printed on a card which is included with your order.

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We print on the finest quality fine art papers with textured, smooth and lustre finishes for prints which last a lifetime. From aceo to 40x80 inch large format, every print has our lifetime quality guarantee.

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 All of the wood for our canvas panels and frames is responsibly sourced from managed forests. Our cotton canvas is completely seedless for the highest quality reproduction possible.

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Why not have us gift wrap your order and attach a personalised message to the recipient. Available for all orders. Each order is hand wrapped in high quality gift wrap with meatllic ribbon and bow. Your personalised message is printed on a card which is included with your order.

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WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY

This was a present for my wife and she loves it. The quality is very good. Thanks for your excellent service.

Fantastic packaging and a stunning print. Thank you!

Great quality and a good idea to include a 'free gift' mini-pic to show what the other finishes are like.

Really excellent print quality! I have just had my print framed and it looks great thank you

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I ordered the canvas panel as a gift for my sister and she was delighted the canvas is really good quality and perfectly stretched. The finish on the back was really profesionally done too

Amazing print well printed and a reasonable price

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