White Lily on a Piano

This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.  The canvas size is 18x22 inches and 21x25 inches with a silver frame. 

Martina Yeon, born in 1962, has lived in her adopted country Spain since 1991.  After settling with her family in Spain, she gained love and appreciation for the Spanish masters and began to model her paintings after the works of Goya and Velázquez.  Following her move to Spain, she began to study the chromatics of paint and drawing, which allowed her to begin painting in a more contemporary realistic manner.Yeon paints in oils on canvas or on boards.  In order to create the smooth surface her pieces are known for, she primes each canvas at least nine times before beginning to paint.  This procedure is important to allow for beautiful details to come to life and to leave an exquisite finish. Martina Yeon states about her work, “my art begins with an objective gaze of nature.  That is, to paint nature as it is, without subjectivity.  The objective gaze that is shared with almost everybody makes people see a flower like a flower, a vase like a vase.  That’s the most important part of my art.  For that reason, I try to represent nature with the least interpretation as possible, trying to make it feel real.  I like to seal in a little part of the nature inside a painting carefully balanced in color, shape and texture.  In order to achieve this goal, I put emphasis in details using a meticulous realism style.”