Null Modesto CUIXART [Spanish] (b. 1925)
Composition, circa 1960
Mixed media o…

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Modesto CUIXART [Spanish] (b. 1925) Composition, circa 1960 Mixed media on paper. Unsigned. 50 x 60 cm Provenance : Galerie René Drouin, Paris.

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Modesto CUIXART [Spanish] (b. 1925) Composition, circa 1960 Mixed media on paper. Unsigned. 50 x 60 cm Provenance : Galerie René Drouin, Paris.

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MODEST CUIXART I TÀPIES (Barcelona, 1925 - Palafrugell, Girona, 2007). Untitled, 1963. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on the back. Measurements: 130 x 97 cm; 135 x 101 cm (frame). As the Juan March Foundation points out; "From 1958, (Cuixart) resorts to his characteristic dripping of metallic iridescence on dark backgrounds that will evolve into a kind of spatialism. At the beginning of the 60's, the material and textural of Lyon's informalism hybridized with the magicist and symbolic graphics of Dau al Set. His plastic concern for the human condition causes his interest in matter to be progressively replaced by an intense irruption of the existential". Cuixart initially studied medicine, but soon abandoned his studies to devote himself to painting, and entered the Academia Libre de Pintura in Barcelona. In 1948 he participated in the foundation of the group Dau al Set, together with Brossa, Ponç, Tàpies and Tharrats, among others. Concerned with the plastic value of the sign, his work has from the beginning a strong kinship with surrealism, as well as a great sensitivity to the expressive power of color. Towards 1955 he immersed himself in material informalism, which led him to use the "grattage" in works with a certain orientalist flavour. In 1959 he won first prize at the São Paulo Biennial and exhibited at the Documenta in Kassel, and the following year he took part in an exhibition of Spanish avant-garde art held at the Tate Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Cuixart introduces collage in his work in 1962, which will gradually lead him towards pop-art. Enriched by all these experiences, he returns again to flat painting, reaching a very personal critical realism, which synthesizes expressionism with dramatically transformed figuration, always valuing the chromatic qualities. In the seventies he exhibited in numerous national and international capitals, such as Paris, Madrid, São Paulo, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Basel, Barcelona and Milan, among others. In the following decade, Cuixart gradually freed his painting from its aggressive aspects to give it a more lyrical tone. In addition, he participates in a group exhibition at the UNESCO Palace in Paris, receives the Cross of St. George of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and the Cross of Isabella the Catholic. In 1988, he holds an anthological exhibition in Japan, in the cities of Kobe and Tokyo. He continues to work with exuberant colors and shapes, and reincorporates a more material figuration to his work. In 1998 the foundation that bears his name was created in Palafrugell, and the following year he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts by the Ministry of Culture. He is represented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Tate Gallery in London, the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Madrid, Barcelona and Saint-Etienne (France), the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Museo de Grabado Español Contemporáneo in Marbella, the Museo de Arte de la Universidad de São Paulo, the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca and the Museo del Ampurdán, among many others.

Current bid 80 EUR

LEVY L Art Décoratif Français 1918-1925 Lévy, sd (circa 1925). In flio, xii pp - 188 plates, bound in half black cloth, boards decorated with a fine art deco composition (cloth split).

Snack service in stamped and glazed Spanish porcelain. From the Bidasoa manufacture, series of monuments of Spain. It consists of twelve plates and two circular dishes. Spain, circa 1980. 27 cm Ø the fountains

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