Manuel Doblas Pinto (1957) - Paisaje de Mallorca

Signed by the author at the bottom

At the back, it is again signed and dated the year 1990

The work is presented framed (the frame has a small crack in the paspartú area (see attached photographs))

The condition of the painting is good

Dimensions of the work: 54 x 65 cm.

Dimensions of the frame: 73 x 85 cm.

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BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST

Manuel Doblas, born in Humilladero (Málaga) in the year 1957, but trained from a very young age in Catalonia and with a mindset well rooted among us, has been a painter for many years. He followed the path of group exhibitions from 1981 and held his first solo show in 1992, precisely in this same Sala Rusiñol where we now find him again. He has won many prizes in diverse places and has not minded participating regularly—he still does—in quick-painting contests throughout the Spanish State. This, which for others may seem an obstacle, because after helping to gain fluency and to find his own formulas that define the style, often leads to arbitrariness, in his case has represented a highly useful system for discovering himself and being able to say with conviction what he desires.

Only those who are afraid to explain believe that they will find themselves very soon. And those who are always thinking—this is the case of Manuel Doblas—never stop feeling the restlessness to move forward. That is why this painter, of whom we now see what he has just done, seeks high spaces by capturing the verticality of skyscrapers and describes abandoned train stations because he is not interested in waiting, but in seeking exits toward a horizon marked by the rails that, past the crossings, are fixed because they serve the inner movement of people.

Manuel Doblas has changed his way of expressing himself and has done so for the better. Gifted for plastic expression and with mastery of technique, he does not stop, but advances.