Alve Valdemi del Mare (1885-1972) - Bodegón

Oil on canvas measuring 55 x 46 cm, framed and signed in the lower right corner. The frame is not included in the sale but is sent as a gift. It contains old marks from xylophagous beetles.

Valdemi del Mare, Alve (Cremona, Italy, 1885 – Barcelona, 1972).

Trained in Bergamo, Milan, and Rome. In 1926, he received the gold medal from the Ministry of Fine Arts and settled in Barcelona. He participated in competitions and group exhibitions. Individually, he often exhibited at the Sala Gaspar. He mainly cultivated floral themes and portraits, also practicing landscape and still life. His painting is characterized by the brilliance of color and the skill of his spatula touches, and even during his time in Barcelona, by adapting his palette to the Mediterranean luminosity, he revealed his roots in the local landscape tradition, inheriting from the great Catalan painters, which is evident in the immediacy, spontaneity, and freshness of his work. He traveled through Navarre and the Basque Country, where he had the opportunity to capture the light and color of numerous towns and corners across the region. He always received favorable criticism, and his solo exhibitions were consistently successful, with his work distributed among countless collectors and followers throughout the country. After his death, the Sala Jaimes in 1974 and the Galería Meifrén in 1976 organized retrospective exhibitions of his work.