57 - ADOLFO ESTRADA (Buenos Aires, 1942).

ADOLFO ESTRADA (Buenos Aires, 1942). “Painting 0970,” 2009. Oil on panel. Label on the back from the Alejandro Sales Gallery. Measurements: 30.4 x 52 cm; 31.5 x 53.5 cm (frame). Adolfo Estrada began his training in Ignacio Colombres’ studio, and in 1962 he left his native Argentina to move to Madrid, where he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He eventually settled permanently in Sant Martí Vell (Girona), where he has lived since 1975. He held his first solo exhibition at the Pizarro Gallery in Buenos Aires in 1962, and three years later presented his first solo show in Madrid at the Ateneo. Since then, he has held solo exhibitions in various Spanish cities, as well as in Argentina, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands. Among his most recent exhibitions, those held at the Alejandro Sales Gallery in Barcelona (2010), the Dan Gallery in São Paulo (2012), and the Sabine Puget Gallery in Château Barras (France, 2013) are particularly noteworthy. A master of intimate painting, Adolfo Estrada has been awarded prestigious prizes such as the Mapfre Foundation’s Penagos Prize for Drawing (1996) and the Condesa Prize in Barcelona (1981), and his work is represented in the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, the Toledo Museum of Contemporary Art, the Ponce Museum in Puerto Rico, the Palacio de Liria in Madrid, the Municipal Museums of Sabadell and Santander, the Lausanne Museum of Contemporary Art, the Ford Foundation in New York, and other public and private collections.