Agustín Alegre Monferrer (1936) - Contraluz

The work is signed on the back by the artist and dated from the year 1975

It is also titled "Contraluz, Alcocebre, Castellón"

The condition of the work is good

The work is framed

Dimensions of the work: 65 cm in height x 50 cm in width

Dimensions of the frame: 100 cm in height x 84 cm in width

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Artist’s Biography:
A painter born in the town of Santa Eulalia del Campo in Teruel in 1936. He studied in Teruel and at the San Carlos Academy in Valencia, funded by the Provincial Council of Teruel. Master of contemporary Spanish figurative painting, Agustín had a younger brother, Fermín, who also pursued painting: "He was realistic like me, more agreeable, he liked light better, he was more Levantine".

He has his painting studio in Villa Miriam – named after his autistic daughter – located on Leocadio Brun street in Teruel. He was a teacher at the Las Anejas school in Teruel. It is known that he was a friend and fellow art student, at the San Carlos Academy in Valencia, of Paco Pérez Monleón, the sculptor José Gonzalvo, and the sculptor and friend, Isaac Rodríguez, from Jabaloyas, “a artist with incredible abilities,” according to Alegre.

His painting is based on maintaining figuration and on exercising perfect technique in solid drawing and in the sense of color. A distinctive feature of his style is the romantic atmosphere of his characters and the treatment of light contrasts against dark masses that recall the Spanish tenebrism of the Baroque.

He has exhibited in Madrid, Milan, Zaragoza and Valencia, among many other cities. He received, among other honors, the Moncada Prize in 1995; the Gold Medal of Benimar in 1957; several City of Albarracín awards; the First Prize for Outdoor Painting in Logroño in 1969; the Africa Medal at the Africa Painters Exhibition in 1974; the third medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition in 1976, and the Galerías Preciados Prize in 1977, among others. He received the Gold Medal of the City of Teruel (one of the awards he is most proud of). A street in Teruel bears his name.

If we had to highlight one painting, we would choose the Burial of Santa Eulalia, which was donated by the artist in 1963 to the hermitage of the Virgin of the Mill. This painting is placed above ‘The Choir’ of noble woods worked in an artisanal way, located at the far end of the main altar, kept with meticulous care, as is everything that represents this emblematic place thanks to the effort, dedication, and sleepless work that the ‘Hermandad de la Virgen’, responsible for maintenance, all volunteers, carries out with the most tenacious spirit."