FRANCISCO FARRERAS RICART (Barcelona, 1927).

FRANCISCO FARRERAS RICART (Barcelona, 1927). Untitled, 1964. Mixed media on paper adhered to board. Presents inscription on the back. Signed, dated and located on the back. Measurements: 83,5 x 58,5 cm; 85,5 x 60 cm (frame). Francisco Farreras Ricart began young to develop his artistic vocation thanks, at least at the beginning, to Antonio Gómez Cano de Murcia and Mariano Cossío, when he began to study in the School of Arts and Trades of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He continued his apprenticeship at the San Fernando School in Madrid, where he obtained the title of Professor of Drawing in 1949, and in Paris, Belgium and Holland thanks to his study trips. At the end of the 50's his style was geometric, using thick materials; later, when he discovered silk paper, he developed the possibilities of this material with a large number of collages, above all, and his work could be seen, since 1954 when he began his professional artistic career, in numerous cities both in Spain and abroad (Madrid, New York, Munich, Logroño, Gijón, Elche, Lisbon, Oporto, Alicante, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Granada, Lahr in Germany, Mallorca, Geneva, California, etc.). It is also preserved in numerous private collections around the world and in institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, the Contemporary Art Center of Almada in Portugal, the Honolulu Academy of the Arts in Hawaii, the Chaux de Fonds Museum of Fine Arts in Switzerland, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, the Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna, Austria, etc.