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THBJulio de Diego (1900-1979) Spanish/American, Limited Edition Screen Print
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveMar 29, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day auction weekend! There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Bill Mack Swarovsky Crystal Sculpture, Movie Ephemera, Modern Furniture, Art Glass Sculptures, Park West Gallery Artworks, and more. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Julio de Diego (1900-1979) Spanish/American, Limited Edition Screen Print. Shows his characteristic playful surrealist imagery in stark but bright colors. Signed and dated '48 bottom right on image.
Overall Size: 14 x 17 1/2 in.
Sight Size: 6 1/4 x 8 in.
#9 #5993 .
Julio de Diego was born in Madrid, Spain on May 9th, 1900. He began sketching at the age of four, encouraged by his mother, but his father, a wealthy retail merchant, planned to put him and his brother in charge of the family business one day. When he was fifteen his father destroyed all of his drawings, so Diego ran away from home and never returned, vowing to become an independent and successful painter. He first found work as a scene painter for theaters in Madrid, as well as acting and dancing in ballets and stage productions. His work was exhibited for the first time in a show in a casino in 1919, and he served as the art director for the first four-reel film ever shot in Spain as well as playing the role of the villain. In 1920 he joined the Spanish Army and was made part of the Cavalry the following year, fighting on the front lines in the North African Rif War for the next two years. While recuperating from a saber injury he was invited to join a fellow soldier on a trip to Paris to convalesce, where his introduction to Cubism, Abstraction, and Surrealism profoundly affected his style. Diego immigrated to the United States in 1924, where he first found work designing scenery in Tampa, Florida for touring Broadway shows. He wound up settling in Chicago in 1926, where he soon found work designing magazine covers and fashion illustrations. His commissions quickly made him financially secure, and he was able to focus more and more on his own style and painting, winning his first award with a piece exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929. He was briefly married to Rosalind Mallery, with whom he had a daughter, but when they divorced in 1932 he moved to Mexico, where he collected native artifacts and designed costumes and sets for opera houses and ballet companies. He became fascinated with folk art and jewelry making in particular, and returned to the United States to teach in New York City. He painted street scenes, landscapes, and murals for the Works Progress Administration, and became a vocal defender of the Communist-leaning American Artists’ Congress as well as a vehement detractor of Francisco Franco. He had his first solo show of his jewelry exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946. There he met the burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, who he married two years later. The two worked together passionately to raise financial support for survivors of the Spanish Civil War, and both traveled with the Royal American Shows carnival where Lee performed and Diego created sets and murals along the route. He taught at the University of Denver School for Art from 1949 to 1950, and was a supporter and traveling lecturer for the Artists Equity Association. In 1955 he and Lee divorced in Reno, Nevada, and Diego moved to California where he spent the next fifteen years crafting increasingly more abstract artwork. His use of perspective in particular garnered him significant attention, with his dizzying vertical depiction of New York known as The Portentous City earning him the nickname “The American Picasso.” In the early 1970s, facing ill health, he relocated to an artist’s colony in Sarasota, Florida, where he died on August 22nd, 1979.
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14 x 17 1/2 in.
