Signed; Antoni Clavé - Clavé Sculpteur - 1989

Signed book by Antoni Clavé on the title page (see photos).

The book is in very good condition.

February 1939, the fall of Barcelona triggers an unprecedented exodus. Nearly half a million people flee the advance of the Francoist troops and cross the Pyrenees. This is the Retirada. Among the refugees who begin their exile in France by being interned in camps in the Pyrénées-Orientales, Antoni Clavé. This young Barcelona poster artist with promising success put his talent at the service of the Republican army. In Prats de Molló and then in Perpignan at the Haras camp, Clavé drew his fellow sufferers and his Senegalese tirailleurs guards. His drawings were noticed and allowed him to cross the border. Released, thanks to the mediation of Martin Vivès, Perpignan artist and future curator of the Rigaud Museum.

In Paris, initially under the aegis of Picasso and the Spanish refugee painters, then within the New School of Paris, Antoni Clavé experiences in the second half of the 1950s a success that quickly became international. Painter, engraver and sculptor, he left Montparnasse for the Midi of France in 1965 where he worked until his death in 2005. Celebrated in his lifetime at the Centre Pompidou or at the Venice Biennale where he represented Spain in 1984, Antoni Clavé is one of those international Catalans who have made their art shine beyond borders.

Fast and very careful shipping. (Cardboard and bubble wrap. Protected edges). Possibility of hand delivery in Paris.