Alve Valdemi del Mare (1885-1972) - Bodegón

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

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

Trained in Bergamo, Milan and Rome. In 1926, he won the Gold Medal from the Ministry of Fine Arts and settled in Barcelona. He participated in competitions and group exhibitions. Individually, he typically exhibited at the Sala Gaspar. He mainly cultivated floral subjects and portraits, also practicing landscape and still life. His painting is characterized by the brilliance of color and the dexterity of his brushstrokes with the spatula, and already in the Barcelona period, adapting his palette to the Mediterranean luminosity, he revealed his roots in the local landscape tradition, inheriting the legacy of the great Catalan painters, a discernible affinity in the immediacy, spontaneity and freshness of diction in all his works. He traveled through Navarre and the Basque Country, where he had the opportunity to capture light and color, with a multitude of towns and corners across the region. He always received favorable critics and his solo exhibitions enjoyed notable success, thus his work is scattered among innumerable collectors and followers across practically the entire national territory. After his death, Sala Jaimes in 1974 and Galería Meifrén in 1976 organized respective anthological exhibitions of his work.