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ISMAEL SMITH Barcelona 1886-New York 1972 Couple and satyrs. 1911 Watercolor and wash on paper Signed and dated in Paris 1911 Measurements 25 x 32 cm

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ISMAEL SMITH Barcelona 1886-New York 1972 Couple and satyrs. 1911 Watercolor and wash on paper Signed and dated in Paris 1911 Measurements 25 x 32 cm

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ISMAEL SMITH MARÍ (Barcelona, 1886 - New York, 1972). "Female nudes". Pencil on paper. Signed with stamp in the upper left corner. Presents rust stains. Measurements: 30 x 23 cm; 60 x 49,5 cm (frame). Sculptor, draftsman and engraver, he was one of the first artists considered novecentistas by Eugenio D'Ors. Trained at the La Lonja School in Barcelona and at the Baixas Academy, he was a student of the sculptors Benlliure, Querol, Vallmitjana and Llimona. Awarded a prize in a competition for new artists at the Ateneo Barcelonés in 1903, in 1906 he exhibited at the Sala Parés. He obtained second and third medal in the V International Exhibition of Fine Arts of Barcelona, in 1907, and second medal in the VI, in 1911. In 1910 he travels to Paris on a grant from the City Council of Barcelona. Between 1913 and 1914 he studied at the National School of Decorative Arts in the French capital, and then began a series of trips to England and the United States, holding numerous exhibitions. He settled permanently in New York in 1918, where he collaborated with the Hispanic Society. In 2005 the Palau Foundation dedicated a retrospective to him. The matrices of his engravings are conserved in the Graphic Unit of the Library of Catalonia and in the Calcografía Nacional in Madrid. Many of his prints are also in the British Museum in London, and he is also represented in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Barcelona, the MoMA in New York, the Calcografía Nacional in Madrid and the Biblioteca de Cataluña.