9 - JOSEP MARIA ROSSELLÓ VIRGILI (Tarragona, 1950).

JOSEP MARIA ROSSELLÓ VIRGILI (Tarragona, 1950). “Pearl Divers,” Tarragona, 2012. Preliminary study for a painting done on-site. Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated, located, and titled on the reverse. Dimensions: 28 x 43 cm; 48.5 x 63.5 cm (frame). Rosselló began his training at the Tarragona School of Art, later completing his studies in Barcelona at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts and the Massana School. His teachers were Magda Folch and Guillen Bergnes. He held his first exhibition in 1967 in Tarragona, at the Sala de Iniciativas y Turismo. Between 1969 and 1983, he lived and worked in Sitges, contributing to the publications “Escrivim a les parets – Revista de les Arts,” “L’Eco de Sitges,” and “El Món.” In 1983, he moved to Madrid to prepare the murals for Salvador Távora’s “Pascua Popular Flamenca,” works he ultimately completed in Rome. After a stay in Tangier working for the Carmen Maceín Foundation, he returned to Catalonia in 1992. He has held numerous exhibitions and created set designs and costumes for plays. He has exhibited his work throughout Catalonia, as well as in Madrid, Bologna, The Hague, Zaragoza, Paris, New York, Rome, Seville, Switzerland, Tangier, Miami, and Parma. His work is represented in the Museums of Modern Art in Tarragona and Céret, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Reina Sofía National Art Center, the National Library and the Library of Catalonia, and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, among many others.