Quimet Sabaté Casanova (1936-2024) - Bodegón conchas

quimet Sabaté Casanova (1936-2024)
Realistic still life painted in oil on canvas.
Canvas sizes 42x34 and 66x58 with frame.
He held solo exhibitions in Mexico City (1960), Girona (1961 to 1971), Caldes de Malavella (1969), Barcelona (1972, 1974, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1989), Paris (1976), Madrid (1977), Toronto (1989), Palma de Mallorca (1959), Barcelona (1970, 1971, 1972, 1985, 1999, and 2017), Paris (1977), New York (1977), Quebec (1981 and 1987), Mexico City (1993), Miami (1993, 1996), and Córdoba (2019).

A special mention is deserved for the great friendship he formed with the considered first Catalan surrealist, Ángel Planells y Cruañas, in the early 70s until his death in 1989. Despite the generational gap, they shared a keen interest in fantastic and dreamlike subjects. Through recounting situations and anecdotes experienced with his close childhood friend, Salvador Dalí, Planells further sparked Sabaté's interest in Dalí's figure and work, whom he had admired since his youth, leading to a series of paintings inspired by the surrealist painter.

These Dalinian-themed paintings formed a permanent exhibition called 'Homage to Dalí,' which could be freely visited at his studio on La Rambla. Opened in the mid-2000s to both local and international visitors, it became a focal point of tourist attraction in what is called the 'unusual' Barcelona.