By Antoni Pitxot
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Dalí Circle Surrealist Mineral Landscape, Spanish Catalan Oil Painting
Artist: Antoni Pitxot Soler / Antoni Pichot Soler (Figueres, 1934 – 2015)
Title: Surrealist Mineral Landscape
Date: 1985
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 50 × 61 cm / 19.7 × 24 in
Framing: Unframed
Signature: Signed and dated lower right
Condition: Very good overall condition. Stable canvas and paint layer. Rich surface texture, visible impasto and original brushwork.
Description
Powerful surrealist oil painting by Antoni Pitxot Soler, one of the most important Catalan artists connected to Salvador Dalí’s inner circle and a key figure in the visual universe of Cadaqués and Figueres.
Painted in 1985, this work belongs to Pitxot’s mature period and presents one of his most recognizable subjects: a dreamlike mineral landscape built from stones, fragments, shells, fossil-like forms and metamorphic shapes. The composition seems suspended between landscape, archaeology and hallucination, where inert matter becomes almost alive.
The painting is especially strong visually. The lower section is constructed through a dense accumulation of sculptural forms, painted with thick, expressive brushwork and a refined chromatic range of blues, ochres, pinks, whites, greys and earthy tones. Above them, a floating organic form...
Category
1980s Surrealist Europe - Art
