Ramón Sanvicens Marfull (1917-1987) - Olot

RAMÓN SANVICENS MARFULL (Barcelona, 1917-1987).
“Florero”.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
The frame shows very slight imperfections.
Measurements: 90 x 73 cm; 105 x 85.5 cm (frame).

Painter, draftsman and printmaker. After studying at the School of Arts and Crafts of El Clot (Barcelona) he entered the Llotja School of Arts and Crafts, where he was a pupil of Lluís Muntané. After the Civil War he entered the Sant Jordi School, where his teachers included E. Santasusagna, F. Labarta and E. Monjo. In 1944 he held his first solo exhibition at the Galerías Españolas in Barcelona and in 1945 he resided in Paris, where he studied the works of Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and Bonnard. In 1946 he obtained the El Paular pension and lived in the Netherlands, where he studied Rembrandt, Vermeer and Franz Hals. In 1957 he was appointed Professor of Painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. In 1986 the painter’s last exhibition during his lifetime was held, organized by the La Caixa Foundation of Barcelona, an exhibition that moved to Madrid. A month after his death a tribute was paid to him at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. A painter recognizable by the joy of his palette and a liberated brushstroke, both characteristics developed after uniquely digesting the Parisian vanguards; he developed a post-Impressionist body of work and later evolved toward a very personal Fauvism with nuances of an expressive character.
Apocryphal signature
Measurements 55 x 46 and 74 x 65 with frame