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Antonio Saura Art

Spanish, b. 1930
Antonio Saura (1930 – 1998) was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is often remembered. He began painting and writing in 1947 in Madrid while suffering from tuberculosis, having already been confined to his bed for five years. In his beginnings he created numerous drawings and paintings with a dreamlike surrealist character that most often represented imaginary landscapes, employing a flat smooth treatment that offers a rich palette of colors. He claimed Hans Arp and Yves Tanguy as his artistic influences. The first appearances in his work of forms that will soon become archetypes of the female body or the human figure occur in the mid-1950s. Starting in 1956 Saura tackled the register of what will prove to be his greatest works: women, nudes, self-portraits, shrouds and crucifixions, which he painted on both canvas and paper. In 1957 in Madrid he founded the El Paso Group and served as its director until it broke up in 1960. Limiting his palette to blacks, grays and browns, Saura asserted a personal style that was independent of the movements and trends of his generation. His work followed in the tradition of Velasquez and Goya. Starting in 1959 he began creating a prolific body of works in print, illustrating numerous books including Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nostlinger’s adaptation of Pinocchio, Kafka’s Tagebucher, Quevedo’s Three Visions, and many others.
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Artist: Antonio Saura
Serie Abierta
Serie Abierta

Serie Abierta

By Antonio Saura

Located in BARCELONA, ES

ANTONIO SAURA "Serie Abierta" 1989 Silkscreen on paper. Copy 48/99. Signed and justified in pencil. 75 x 104cm.

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1980s Abstract Antonio Saura Art

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original lithograph

original lithograph

By Antonio Saura

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 by Clot, Bramsen et Georges and issued in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist Times -- a radical...

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1960s Antonio Saura Art

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Lithograph

Roland Garros 1997

Antonio SauraRoland Garros 1997

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Roland Garros 1997

By Antonio Saura

Located in Winterswijk, NL

Exhibition poster Color offset lithograph 1974 Signed in print Publisher: Pace Gallery, Columbus In great condition, marginal defects on edges

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Tu cabello es amarillo
Tu cabello es amarillo

Tu cabello es amarillo

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Antonio Saura Tu cabello es amarillo 1962 Silkscreen on fine white Vélin paper Signed in pencil and dated Number 63/85 77,50 x 55 cm Edited by José Ayllón Catalogue raisonné of grap...

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1960s Abstract Antonio Saura Art

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