BENJAMÍN PALENCIA (Barrax, Albacete, 1894 - Madrid, 1980). "Vase with carnation", 1971. Wax on paper.

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  BENJAMÍN PALENCIA (Barrax, Albacete, 1894 - Madrid, 1980). "Vase with carnation", 1971. Wax on paper. Signed and dated in the lower left corner. Work referenced in the Benjamín Palencia Archive with registration number D010/71. Measurements: 47 x 32 cm; 67 x 50 cm (frame). After beginning his training in a self-taught way, Palencia moved to Madrid at the age of fifteen. In the capital he entered the Julio Moisés Free Academy, where he coincided with other outstanding painters such as Salvador Dalí. In 1926 he traveled to Paris and met Picasso and Miró, and on his return to Madrid he made his individual debut at the Museum of Modern Art (1928). He then made several study trips to Italy, Berlin and New York. In 1941 he founded the Vallecas School, and in 1943 he was First Medalist at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. In 1974 he was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and a few years later of the Academy of San Jorge in Barcelona. Benjamín Palencia's style, starting from surrealism, cubism and other avant-gardes, finally evolved towards an austere realism. Little by little, his style became more intense and powerful, with the forms acquiring a greater volume and, in painting, the painter's concern focusing on the luminous aspects. Focusing his work on landscape painting, he tried to restart a second Vallecas School together with Álvaro Delgado, Carlos Pascual de Lara, Gregorio del Olmo, Enrique Núñez Casteló and Francisco San José. His paintings and drawings will collect images of the Castilian countryside and the figures that can be found in it, peasants and animals, bulls, horses, goats, etc.. His painting becomes a testimony of the rough, the coarse and the rural, the sober Castilian and the Spanish. Palencia is represented in the Reina Sofia National Museum, in the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid and in the Fine Arts Museums of Valencia and Albacete, among many others.
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