‘The cut, materially executed in clay, as if it were incised by a cleaver, is the clear demonstration of Leoncillo’s Cubist intelligence: it represents the decomposition of naturalistic volumes into a series of chromatic and luminous planes, in which the object is simultaneously portrayed – as anything but natural – together with its syntactic elaboration into a form that goes far beyond that of a natural object. [...] For this reason, Leoncillo could not use anything but clay, exalting it from its artisanal status to its most autonomous and rarefied form’

-Cesare Brandi
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The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by E. Mascelloni dated 20 December 2018 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared.

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