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Signed Emilio Grau-Sala (1911 – 1975) Oil on canvas Painting
Signed Emilio Grau-Sala (1911 – 1975) Oil on canvas Painting. The impressionistic style painting is exactly type and style and from the body of work for which the artist is known. The painting depicts a Young Woman posed with a Puppet. Signed Lower Left.
A School of Paris painter who never abandoned lyrical figurative and landscape subjects, Emilio Grau-Sala was born in Barcelona and studied at the School of Fine Arts in his native town. Beginning his public career in 1929, he moved to Paris in 1932 and exhibited at the Salon du Printemps.
Emilio Grau Sala was born in Barcelona in 1911 as the son of a painter and attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes in his hometown. In 1930 he held his first exhibition. During the Spanish Civil War, he emigrated to Paris. In Paris he was influenced by Impressionism and artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall or Raoul Dufy and exhibited in the Salon du Printemps. In 1963 Grau Sala returned to Barcelona. The artist passed away in 1975. His multi-faceted and comprehensive oeuvre, which was only rediscovered in the 1990s. His lively and graceful street scenes, circus rings and interiors accorded well with current sensibilities in the Parisian art center, and Grau-Sala quickly gained an international reputation. In 1937 he was awarded a Carnegie prize in Pittsburgh, and his regular exhibitions in the United States made him as sought-after overseas as he was in Europe. Leisure, entertainment, and elegant domesticity are Grau Sala’s most frequently treated themes: people conversing at the racetrack or circus, splendid parties, or domestic scenes in well-appointed interiors. He depicted his pleasant scenes with an intense, broken color and sparkling, impastic surface heighten the joyous quality so typical of his work.
artwork is 25 5/8" High x 18" Wide
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Condition: good
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