Carmen Laffón (after) - Sanlúcar de Barrameda - Offset Lithography - licensed print

Offset lithography after Carmen Laffón (*)
Reproduction of the work “Sanlúcar de Barrameda” oil on canvas created by Laffón between 1975 and 1977.
Printed on thick Fine Art board.
Published by Museo d’Art Espanyol Contemporani of Palma de Mallorca.
Printing authorized with copyright and a legal serial number.
Large Format.

- Sheet dimensions: 59 x 99 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and therefore is in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be tracked with a tracking number.

The shipping will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Born in Seville in 1934, Carmen Laffón’s drawing ability stood out from childhood and, at twelve, she began attending the classes of the artist Manuel González Santos. At nineteen, she finished her Fine Arts studies in Madrid. Thanks to a Ministry of Education scholarship, she spent some time in Italy, where she was awarded the Via Frattina Prize. Back in Madrid, she exhibited at Galería Biosca and met the gallerist Juana Mordó, with whom she would maintain a great friendship as well as the professional relationship.

Together with Teresa Duclós and José Soto, in 1965 they created the Sevillian gallery La Pasarela directed by Enrique Roldán — and El Taller, where they taught drawing, painting and printmaking. After living in Madrid again for a few years, she joined the drawing-from-life chair at the School of Fine Arts of Seville. In 1975, she exhibited at FIAC in Paris the series “Armarios,” and in 1982 the Ministry of Culture awarded her the National Prize of Plastic Arts.

In 1989 she completed one of her most significant commissions, received by the Bank of Spain: the portraits of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía. Among other important exhibitions in the nineties, notable were the retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, FOCUS, Seville and Palacio Episcopal, Málaga. In 2003, a traveling exhibition with her sculptures, paintings and drawings toured the Philippines, South Korea, Montevideo and Rome.

In 1997 she was elected academic number of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, where she would enter with the address “Vision of a Landscape.” In those years she began an active period of sculpture production and received numerous recognitions for her work, such as the Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts (1999) and the Tomás Francisco Prieto prize of the Casa de la Moneda Foundation.

In 2004, she exhibited at Leandro Navarro Gallery “El estudio de la Calle Bolsa” and in 2007 “Carmen Laffón en Silos. La Viña.” Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, MNCARS, Burgos.

Some of the museums and public collections that host Carmen Laffón’s work include the Bank of Spain, the British Museum, Fundación Casa de la Moneda, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.