ALBERT RÀFOLS CASAMADA (Barcelona, 1923-2009). "1789", 1989. Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left corner. Signed, dated and titled

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Classics XIX and XX

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May 18, 2021

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  ALBERT RÀFOLS CASAMADA (Barcelona, 1923-2009). "1789", 1989. Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back. With the seal of the Ràfols Casamada Family Legacy Measurements: 100.5 x 81 cm Painter and graphic artist, Ràfols Casamada today enjoys great international prestige. He began studying architecture, but soon abandoned it to devote himself to the plastic arts. In 1950 he obtained a scholarship to travel to France, and settled in Paris until 1954. There he became acquainted with post-cubist figurative painting, as well as the work of Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Miró, among others. These influences were joined in his painting to that of American abstract expressionism, which was developing at the same time. When he finally returned to Barcelona, he embarked on his own artistic path, with a style characterized by compositional elegance, based on orthogonal structures combined with an emotive and luminous chromaticism. After showing an interesting relationship, in the sixties and seventies, with neo-dada and new realism, his work has focused on purely pictorial values: fields of color in expressive harmony on which gestural charcoal lines stand out. Throughout his career, Ràfols Casamada received a multitude of awards, such as the National Plastic Arts Award from the Ministry of Culture in 1980, the Creu de Sant Jordi in 1982 and the CEOE Arts Award in 1991. In 1985 he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. In 2003 the Generalitat awarded him the National Visual Arts Prize of Catalonia, and in 2009, just two months before his death, Grup 62 paid tribute to him at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. His work can be found in the most important museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles, the Picasso Museum in France, the Georges Pompidou in Paris and the British Museum and the Tate Gallery in London, among many others.
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