MIQUEL BARCELÓ ARTIGUES (Felanitx, Mallorca, 1957).

MIQUEL BARCELÓ ARTIGUES (Felanitx, Mallorca, 1957). "Still life". Mixed media on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 55'5 x 75'5 cm; 58 x 77 cm. Painter and sculptor, Barceló was formed in Palma de Mallorca and debuted with only seventeen years, completing his studies in Barcelona. He discovered "art brut" in Paris, and in 1976 he held his first solo exhibition in a museum: "Cadaverina 15" at the Museum of Mallorca. In 1986 he was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts, and since then his work has been recognized through the most distinguished awards, such as the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts or the Sorolla Prize of the Hispanic Society of America in New York. Barceló is currently represented at the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Marugami Hirai in Japan, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the CAPC in Bordeaux, the Carré d'Art in Nimes, the Contemporary Art Museum in Caracas and the Fine Arts Museum in Boston, among others.