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Lladró's Waiting Backstage ballerina sits with lowered gaze in a soft blue pleated tutu. Attributed to Fulgencio García, she was modelled in 1969 for the acclaimed Spanish house of Lladró. Read its story.
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Fulgencio García is credited with this dancer, and he shaped her for Lladró in 1969 with elongated, dreamlike proportions long associated with Spanish porcelain artistry. Here she waits in the hush before her entrance, a moment of quiet anticipation held in porcelain.
Lladró went on to receive the Príncipe Felipe prizes in 1993 and 1997. The same skill shows here, where this dancer pairs anatomical accuracy with a romantic air, from her delicately sculpted hands to her muscular yet graceful legs.
A scroll-patterned bodice crowns her costume, and warm flesh tones sit in gentle harmony with its cool color. Her glossy crystalline glaze lends the porcelain a soft sheen. Seated on her pale grey stone, she seems to listen for her cue.
Lladró began as a family dream. In 1953 the brothers Juan, José and Vicente Lladró began making figurines, vases and plates in their family home in Almàssera. Their first pieces took their inspiration from Meissen, Sèvres and Capodimonte, and a new Spanish art was about to take shape.
Lladró says the single firing method it introduced in the 1960s helped define the soft pastel tones of its figures. In 1988 the Lladró Museum and Gallery opened in Manhattan. In 1991 St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum hosted an exhibition of Lladró sculpture, and Don Quixote found a permanent place there. Spain honored the house in 1993 with its Príncipe Felipe Prize for Internationalization.
Today Lladró makes its home in Tavernes Blanques, Valencia, where it creates porcelain figurines and decorative sculpture. Its figures now dance in homes around the world, admired by collectors with a romantic heart. They know each piece began with brothers working at home in a small Spanish village.
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