Lita Cabellut

Lita Cabellut is a contemporary Spanish painter who is best known for her large-scale realistic oil paintings. Throughout her practice, Cabellut meticulously renders portraits of fictional and historical characters utilizing a fresco-like technique to bring a heightened sense of reality to the people she depicts. Her past subjects have included a diverse range of figures from culture and science, such as Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel, Sigmund Freud, Billie Holiday, and Marie Curie, among others. Born on October 24, 1961 in Barcelona, Spain, she was a Romani orphan that was adopted at the age of 13. Growing up in Madrid, she spent time at the Prado Museum studying the works of Francisco de Goya and Diego Velázquez. Cabellut went on to attend the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she further studied the Dutch masters and developed her hallmark technique. Her works have been exhibited in the Het NoordBrabants Musuem in Den Bosch and the Hälsingland Museum in Hudiksvall, among others. Cabellut lives and works in Den Haag, the Netherlands.