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Ignacio Gil Sala
double-sided marker drawing spanish abstract expressionism

c.1985

About the Item

One side signed. Lower right corner slightly bent. Measures 29x20. Frameless. Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid traveler who knew how to capture his eyes to that world with his painting. After starting his artistic training at the age of nine, Gil Sala entered the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, ​​where he had as teachers Felix Mestres and Vicente Borrás. Already in 1930, being still almost an apprentice, he obtained the bronze medal of the School, and in 1936 he won by contest a scholarship to make a study trip through Spain. Those were the difficult moments of the outbreak of the Civil War and thanks to the help of the sculptor Mariano Benlliure, he was able to complete his artistic training. Throughout his life Ignacio Gil dedicated himself to travel both in the Peninsula and in different Islamic and Latin American countries. He exhibited his work in Spain, France, the Philippines, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and Colombia, among many other countries. Extraordinary draftsman, agile handling pencil and charcoal, Ignacio Gil immortalized landscapes of all Spain, fishing ports of the Mediterranean, different European cities, etc., all expressed through a resounding brushstroke and a studied color. The Insular Council of the Balearic Islands awarded him an award for the numerous times he immortalized the lands, the people and the sea of ​​Ibiza.
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