ANTONI CLAVÉ I SANMARTÍ (Barcelona, 1913 - Saint Tropez, France, 2005).

ANTONI CLAVÉ I SANMARTÍ (Barcelona, 1913 - Saint Tropez, France, 2005). "Derrière le Bouclier", 1975. Oil and collage on paper glued on táblex. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. With label of the Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, on the back. Sizes: 125 x 120 cm; 152 x 147 cm (frame). Antoni Clavé is one of the most important figures of Spanish contemporary art. Trained in Barcelona, during the Civil War he settled in Paris, where he met Vuillard, Bonnard and Picasso. It was the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona which, following an exhibition in 1956, brought national recognition to an artist who by then enjoyed solid prestige both in Europe and the United States. He was awarded prizes at the Hallimark in New York in 1948, at the Venice Biennale in 1954 and at the Tokyo International Biennale in 1957. In 1984 the Spanish state recognised his artistic value with the exhibition of more than one hundred of his works in the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. That same year he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He is represented in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the British Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.