Llano Florez
French, 1889 – 1957
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Llano-Florez or François Augustin Célestine Carrera was a French painter and illustrator. A little-known Art Deco artist with a sophisticated style, he specialized in paintings and engravings.
Son of Augustin Antoine Fidel and Pilar Llano-Flores, he was the brother of Augustin Carrera, the painter who decorated the ceiling of the hall and foyer of the Marseille Opera House. Llano-Florez was also a fashion designer at the Maison Ducharne silk house. He was a student of the French academic painter Fernand Cormon and created elegant female figures for the magazines Gazette Du Bon Ton, Le Goût du Jour, by François Bernouard, and Feuillets d'art, by Michel Dufet. The artist illustrated a book by French writer Anatole France entitled “Histoire comique” (Librairie de France, 1926), a posthumous collection of satirical verses by Count Robert de Montesquiou, and a short work by Georges Duhamel called “Elégie du mois de février,” published in 1919.