LITO is pleased to announce a new collaboration with internationally acclaimed artist Oscar Murillo. Presented in partnership with Sotheby’s, the collaboration introduces an exclusive LITO Edition by Murillo, expanding the platform’s program of museum-quality contemporary works available through Sotheby’s online marketplace. Produced in a limited quantity of 50 editions, Mango (2026) will be available exclusively through Sotheby’s online marketplace beginning May 18, 2026, priced at $15,000.

The edition, Mango (2026), is derived from Murillo’s iconic Drawings off the Wall (2010-2014) series – often referred to as his “word paintings.” Widely recognized for merging gestural abstraction with fragments of language, Murillo’s practice draws on themes of memory and shared cultural experience. In Mango, a single word, at once familiar and symbolically charged, emerges through layered, full-body mark-making, where strokes are transferred, obscured, and reworked across the canvas. The composition reflects Murillo’s sustained exploration of the tension between legibility and erasure, with the word itself partially interrupted and embedded within a dense field of painterly gestures.

Like the earlier works in the series, Mango brings together raw immediacy and material precision, pairing references to everyday commodities with the formal traditions of painting. The fruit itself, ubiquitous across geographies yet deeply tied to personal and cultural memory, functions as both a linguistic marker and a point of entry into broader questions of identity, labor, and global exchange. Through this interplay, Murillo situates the work between multiple worlds, where traces of place, movement, and lived experience remain visible within the surface.

Using LITO’s proprietary Hi-Rnd© technology, the original work is translated into a high-resolution, limited-edition print on aludibond, capturing texture, color, and dimensionality with exceptional fidelity. Each edition is hand-signed and numbered by the artist and presented in a custom dark brown aluminium frame.

This collaboration also marks a significant philanthropic initiative. In celebration of the South London Gallery’s 135th anniversary, Murillo will donate all artist proceeds from the sale of the edition to the institution. The gesture reflects a longstanding relationship between the artist and the gallery, which hosted his first institutional solo exhibition in 2013 and has remained a key site of collaboration and community engagement throughout his career.