Madame Butterfly (1985) takes its title from the Puccini opera and from a rich tradition of Orientalist fantasy — but in Costus’s hands, the subject is transformed by their characteristic queer sensibility and cultural self-awareness. Signed by Enrique Naya Igueravide in 1985, the work belongs to the final period of the Costus collaboration. Tinta sobre papel gives the image an intimacy and graphic confidence that marks the best of their late drawings.
Costus — Juan Carrero Galofré and Enrique Naya Igueravide — were among the defining artists of La Movida Madrileña, the social and cultural movement that transformed Spanish life after the Franco dictatorship. Working in Madrid from the late 1970s until Carrero Galofré’s death from AIDS in 1989, they produced a body of work that combined pop aesthetics, Mediterranean chromatic intensity, gay male imagery, and an irrepressible visual energy.
This work is sold and forms part of a private collection. It is presented here as part of the Imago Dei Gallery archive of significant works by Costus.
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