Ramón Sanvicens Marfull (1917-1987) - Olot

RAMÓN SANVICENS MARFULL (Barcelona, 1917-1987).
“Paisaje olot”

Dimensions 55x46 and 74x65 with frame

Painter, draftsman and printmaker. After studying at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Clot (Barcelona) he entered the Escuela de Artes y Oficios Llotja, where he was a student of Lluís Muntané. After the Civil War he entered the Escuela de Sant Jordi, where his teachers were 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 grant and lived in Holland, where he studied Rembrandt, Vermeer and Franz Hals. In 1957 he was named Professor of Painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi. In 1986 the painter’s last in-life exhibition was held, organized by the La Caixa Foundation of Barcelona, an exhibition that moved to Madrid. A month after his death a tribute was dedicated 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 a singular digestion of the Parisian avant-gardes, he developed a post-impressionist body of work before later evolving into a very personal Fauvism with expressionist nuances.
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Dimensions 55x46 and 74x65 with frame