Manuel Doblas Pinto "Royo" (1957) - Conversando en el bar

Signed by the author on the bottom "Royo"

The work is presented framed.

The condition is good.

Dimensions of the artwork: 60 cm high x 73 cm wide

Dimensions of the frame: 67 cm high x 79 cm wide

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BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST

Manuel Doblas, born in Humilladero (Málaga) in 1957, but educated from a very young age in Catalonia and with a mindset well rooted among us, has been a painter for many years. He followed the path of group shows from 1981 and held his first solo exhibition in 1992, precisely in this same Sala Rusiñol where we find him again today. He has won many prizes in various places and has not minded participating regularly—he still does—in rapid painting competitions throughout the Spanish state. This, which for others may seem an obstacle, because after helping to gain fluency and to find personal formulas that define the style, often leads to recurring methods, in his case it has represented a highly useful system to discover himself and to be able to say with conviction what he desires.

Only those who fear explaining themselves believe that they will find themselves very soon. And those who are always thinking—this is the case of Manuel Doblas—never stop feeling the restlessness to move forward. Therefore this painter, about whom we are now seeing what he has just done, seeks high spaces by capturing the verticality of skyscrapers and describes abandoned train stations because he is not interested in waiting, but rather he seeks exits toward a horizon marked by the iron tracks that, after crossings are passed, are fixed because they serve the inner movement of people.

Manuel Doblas has changed his way of expressing himself and he has done so for the better. Gifted for plastic expression and with mastery of technique, he does not stop, but advances.