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Albert Rafols CasamadaRafols Casamada Little Blue original litograph abstract painting1995
1995
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Blue- original litograph abstract limited edition painting
Original graphic work by CASAMADA.
Limited edition engraving. 50 copies
Signed and numbered in pencil.
framed
RÀFOLS CASAMADA, Albert (Barcelona, 1923-2009).
Painter and graphic artist, Ràfols Casamada today enjoys great international prestige. He began studying architecture, but soon abandoned to devote himself to the arts. In 1950 won a scholarship to travel to France and settled in Paris until 1954. There he met poscubista figurative painting, while the work of Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Miró, among others. These influences were united in their painting to American abstract expressionism, which was developing at that moment. When he finally returns to Barcelona begins his own artistic path, with a style characterized by compositional elegance, based on orthogonal structures connected with an emotional and bright chromaticism. He has received numerous awards, including the National Plastic Arts, the Creu de Sant Jordi or the Arts Award CEOE. He also was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is in major museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA 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. a style characterized by compositional elegance, based orthogonal linked up to an emotional and luminous coloring. He has received numerous awards, including the National Plastic Arts, the Creu de Sant Jordi or the Arts Award CEOE. He also was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is in major museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA 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. a style characterized by compositional elegance, based orthogonal linked up to an emotional and luminous coloring. He has received numerous awards, including the National Plastic Arts, the Creu de Sant Jordi or the Arts Award CEOE. He also was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is in major museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA 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. based orthogonal linked up to an emotional and luminous coloring. He has received numerous awards, including the National Plastic Arts, the Creu de Sant Jordi or the Arts Award CEOE. He also was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is in major museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA 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. based orthogonal linked up to an emotional and luminous coloring. He has received numerous awards, including the National Plastic Arts, the Creu de Sant Jordi or the Arts Award CEOE. He also was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is in major museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA 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. He was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is in major museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA 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. He was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is in major museums around the world: the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA 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.
- Creator:Albert Rafols Casamada (1923 - 2009, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1995
- Dimensions:Height: 21.66 in (55 cm)Width: 14.97 in (38 cm)
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- Gallery Location:CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU471313858962
Albert Rafols Casamada
Albert Ràfols-Casamada was born in 1923 in Barcelona. There he began pursuing a career in architecture, which left convinced that he must devote himself exclusively to art. Thanks to a scholarship, he traveled to France in 1950, where he received a big creative boost and where he learned about post-Cubist figurative painting, creating, based on this style, his early works. Painters such as Picasso, Braque and Matisse mark their influence in the work of Ràfols-Casamada and begins to create his first abstract works. In 1955 he decided to return to Barcelona. Already immersed in pure abstraction and firmly settled in Barcelona, Ràfols-Casamada created works like "Cantera" (1958), characterized by the presence of orthogonal forms and structural composition on the canvas created from a soft color yet very bright. Around this time he makes clear the great influence of painters like Rothko and Mondrian. Later in the decade of the '60s, he reaches an oversimplification, both in form and color, coming to rely only on white to create her pieces. Being instructed in American trends, adjusts the pop art and collage to his repertoire, resulting in works such as "La Emoción y la Razón" (1965). Lover of the pedagogy of art, he created in 1964, the first Spanish school of art, Elisava, running it until 1967, year in which he left this school to create another, Eina, secular and focused on the most contemporary trends of the time. In the '70s, his works are characterized by the use of horizontal and vertical planes that maximize the chromatic contrasts, whose tones are bright and sensitive. Works such as "Invernadero" (1982) are the faithful representation of this trend. Albert Ràfols-Casamada has earned throughout his career a great appreciation of his work and his contribution to Spanish art, the proof are the awards given by the Spanish Ministry of Culture (National Plastic Arts Prize in 1980), the Legion Honor of the French Government (1991) or the Visual Arts Award of Catalonia (2003). Ràfols-Casamada died in 2009 in his native Barcelona.
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