Null Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, 1904-1977)
Maternity.
Pastel on cardboard. …

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Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, 1904-1977) Maternity. Pastel on cardboard. Signed. 65 x 50 cm.

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Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, 1904-1977) Maternity. Pastel on cardboard. Signed. 65 x 50 cm.

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PERE PRUNA OCERANS (Barcelona, 1904 - 1977). "Female nude", 1956. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Measurements: 115 x 86 cm; 126 x 97 cm (frame). A young woman of stylized figure leans on the railing with one hand while with the other she holds a transparent veil that covers her head. Behind her, a landscape opens up with a first line of tall cypress trees between whose long canopies a country house can be seen. The girl responds to the prototype of the melancholic and fragile woman, mysterious and subtle in her movements, which Pere Pruna forged by placing his female models in calm settings, charged with metaphysical resonances. Pruna focused on the portrait and the female figure, endowing it with elegance and delicacy. This painting is in tune with the return to order championed by the avant-garde (including Picasso) in the thirties and forties, after the cubist and fauve period. In fact, Cocteau, a great friend of Pruna's, was one of the promoters of this return to classicism, in which Pruna would find his most authentic expression in the following decades. This canvas takes us into a suggestive, sensual and intimate atmosphere. A mainly self-taught artist, Pere Pruna completed his training at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. After beginning to exhibit in Barcelona when he was still very young, he traveled to Paris in 1921, where he was helped and guided by Picasso. In the French capital he held a successful solo exhibition at the Galerie Percier, and came into contact with intellectuals such as Cocteau, Drieu la Rochelle, Max Jacob and others, with whom he founded the magazine "Philosophie" in 1924. Serge Diaghilev, who visited one of his exhibitions, also proposed him to create the sets and costumes for the ballet "Les matelots" in 1925. Since then he also worked on other musical works, such as "La vie de Polichinele" (1934) and "Oriane" (1938), among others. In 1928 he obtained the second absolute prize in the exhibition of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg and later, on his return to Barcelona, he obtained other awards such as the competition "Montserrat seen by the Catalan artists" (1931) or the Nonell Prize (1936). The latter was surrounded by controversy, because Pruna obtained it for his oil painting "El vi de Chios", for which he used as a model a photograph published in a Parisian pornographic magazine. In view of the commotion caused, Pruna renounced the prize, but the jury ratified its decision. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pruna settled in Paris and continued his international exhibition activity, with an exhibition organized in London in 1937. At the same time he worked for Ridruejo's propaganda services, with works such as the poster commemorating the promulgation of the Labor Force, and Eugenio d'Ors, National Head of Fine Arts, introduced him to the Spanish representation at the Venice Biennale in 1938. After the war he combined easel painting exhibitions with mural painting, a genre in which his work in the Monastery of Montserrat was especially celebrated. In 1965 he won the City of Barcelona award, and three years later he was named academician of the Far de Sant Cristòfor. Pere Pruna is currently represented in the Museum of Montserrat, where there is a space with his name, the MACBA in Barcelona and the Maricel Museum in Sitges, among others.

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