Domingo Milella

Print 50 x 62.5 cm. 19 5/8 x 24 5/8 in.

Frame 53 x 65.5 cm. 20 7/8 x 25 3/4 in.

Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP

Directly from the artist studio

Sotheby's Maison, Hong Kong, Domingo Milella LIMINAL, 10 June – 20 August 2026

Epigravettian (circa 20,000–13,000 years ago)

The Cala dei Genovesi Cave (Levanzo, Sicily) contains one of the most significant collections of cave art in the entire Mediterranean. Created at the end of the last ice age, when the island was already separated from the Italian peninsula, it includes several dozen engraved depictions of animals and anthropomorphic figures. Among the former are horses, goats, and aurochs (wild cattle), such as the one shown in the photograph. Covered on its back by a calcite patina, the animal looks to the left and is rendered in a style halfway between naturalism and schematism: lacking internal detail, with a single front leg and two curved horns projecting forward. This artistic approach finds parallels in other sites decorated at the end of the last ice age on the island and in southern Italy.