Manuel Doblas Pinto "Royo" (1957) - Calle con Buganvillas

Signed by the author at the bottom "Royo"\n\nThe framed work is presented.\nThe condition is good.\n\nDimensions of the work: 73 cm high x 60 cm wide\nFrame dimensions: 82 cm high x 69 cm wide\n\n:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\n\nBIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST\n\nManuel Doblas, born in Humilladero (Málaga) in 1957, but trained from a very young age in Catalonia and with a mindset deeply rooted among us, has been a painter for many years.\nHe followed the path of group exhibitions from 1981 and held his first solo show in 1992, precisely in this same Sala Rusiñol where we find him again today.\nHe has won many awards in various places and he has not minded participating regularly—he still does—in speed painting competitions throughout the Spanish state.\nThis, which for others may be an obstacle, because after helping him gain ease and discover his own formulas that define his style, often leads to recurring approaches, has, in his case, represented a highly useful system for finding himself and being able to say with certainty what he desires.\nOnly those who fear explaining themselves believe they will find themselves very soon.\nAnd those who are always thinking—this is the case of Manuel Doblas—never stop feeling the restlessness to move forward.\n\nHence this painter, of whom we now see what he has just done, seeks high spaces by capturing the verticality of skyscrapers and depicts abandoned train stations because he has no interest in waiting, but rather seeks exits toward a horizon marked by the iron tracks which, after crossing intersections, remain fixed because they serve the inner movement of people.\n\nManuel Doblas has changed his way of expressing himself and he has done so for the better. Gifted in plastic expression and with mastery of technique, he does not stop, but advances.