Year End Holiday Prestige Sale
Lot 121:
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Keywords: Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Spanish School, Expressionist Figuration, Mid-century Parisian Art, Modern Colorism, Raoul Dufy style, Pierre Bonnard style, Marc Chagall style, Pastel, Paper, Mid 20th century, Interior composition, Maternity theme, Expressionist pastel technique, Picture
Emilio Grau Sala, pastel on paper painting. Signed bottom right.
Grau Sala combines his attendance to the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona with an essentially self-taught formation.
In 1930 he held his first exhibition at the Badrinas gallery in Barcelona. At the beginning of the Civil War, in 1936, he moved to Paris, where he settled in the Spanish artists colony of Montparnasse. That same year he was awarded the first Carnegie Prize.
In the twenty-five years he stayed there, he was closely acquainted with the avant-garde, although he always opted for a colorist figuration, derived from impressionism and fauvism. It was a path already taken by the commercial circuit, surpassed in terms of novelty by cubism and surrealism, but which was kept alive at a high level thanks to masters such as Bonnard, Chagall and Dufy.
In fact, he soon became known in Paris as the successor of the Impressionist spirit and values.
Measurements: Art: 11 x 16 in. (27.9 x 40.6 cm.), Frame: 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. (44.5 x 57.2 cm.) approx
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