Pablo Mañé Garzón (1921-2004) - Joven planchando

The work is signed by the author at the bottom

The work is presented framed

Dimensions of the piece: 54 cm in height x 37 cm in width

Dimensions of the framed piece: 59 cm in height x 41 cm in width

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Artist Biography

1921

Pablo Mañé Garzón was born on January 21 in Montevideo, into a family of Catalan origin from El Vendrell.

1933

His family moves to Paris where the father has been named ambassador. He continues his studies in France, a language he will come to master as a second native tongue.

1936

He begins to develop an interest in painting. He enrolls in the school of the cubist painter André Lhote, of whom he becomes a favored disciple.

1939

He returns to Uruguay. His artistic restlessness leads him to experiment in various fields. He travels through South America. He alternates journalism with guitar and tango.

1956-1969

He collaborates with the weekly “Marcha” as a music and visual arts critic. At the same time, he works as a writer in the arts section of the newspaper “El País.” His articles are followed with great interest by the Rioplatense cultural elite. He is a sought-after figure, lively and prolific: he gives courses and lectures, holds public cultural promotion posts, and exhibits in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and Sao Paulo.

1960

He earns a Doctorate in Law and Social Sciences from the University of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.

1963

He marries and his son Pau is born.

1965

He suffers his first artistic crisis. He abandons cubism. He becomes interested in a painting more committed politically and socially: “I seek an art founded on truth, in what is mysterious and contradictory in all of us.”
1969 He earns the Painting Prize at the XXXIII National Salon of Plastic Arts. Nevertheless, his restless spirit is boiling with longing and dissatisfaction, and in the same year he leaves his country and moves to Spain in search of new horizons. He lives in Madrid and Barcelona.

1972

He exhibits for the first time in Spain at the Gaudí Room in Barcelona.

1973

He settles in Mataró. He founds an art academy. He teaches painting and drawing and above all tries to convey his unique way of seeing, understanding, and living art. Later, his pupils will form a school that becomes known as “El Grup de la Plaça Gran.” It is an era of emotional crisis reflected in his painting: sad and harsh. He endures financial hardship.

1974-1980

By commission of Barcelona publishers, he translates classic and English and French romantic poets: Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, Whitman, Blake, Mallarmé, and Valéry. The Rio Nuevo publishing house issues his translations in bilingual editions. He collaborates in the culture section of the newspapers “El Noticiero Universal” and “El Diario de Barcelona.”

1975

He finds emotional stability with his former student Tere González Solá, whom he will marry in 1982. He undertakes new challenges with renewed energy. It is an exciting, prolific period. He exhibits at the Municipal Museum of Mataró and at the Caixa Laietana Exhibition Hall.

1979

He moves to Barcelona. He feels he has reached full artistic maturity and his work reflects it. Technique and aesthetics become his priorities: “I pursue a painting that captures the fleetingness of time and evokes in the viewer a sense of illusory joy.”

1980-1990

A dense period for exhibitions: Madrid, Seville, Bilbao, Valladolid, Mallorca, among other cities and annually in Barcelona. He participates in the Artexpo (Barcelona) and ARCO (Madrid).

1991

He is selected to join the exhibition-auction held in New York at the Soroka Medical Center.

1992

He exhibits at the Phillips Gallery in New York.

1993-2004

He travels through Europe and the Americas. He receives commissions from dealers in the U.S. and Japan. His work is incorporated into the Estrada Museum in Barcelona, the Montevideo Art Museum, the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, U.S.A., and into the collections of the Bank of Spain and Banc Sabadell. His last exhibition takes place at the Rusiñol Hall in Sant Cugat in March 2004.

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