Joan Josep Tharrats (1918-2001) - Abstracción

The work is signed by the artist at the bottom "tharrats".
Good condition.
The work is presented framed.
Dimensions of the work: 40 cm high by 49 cm wide.
Frame dimensions: 56 cm high by 64 cm wide.
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BIOGRAPHY OF JOAN JOSEP THARRATS (Girona, 1918 - Barcelona, 2001)

Spanish painter and printmaker. He was born in Girona and began his early artistic studies in Barcelona, the city where the Civil War caught him. A founding member in 1948 of the group Dau al Set, together with Joan Ponç, Antoni Tàpies, Modest Cuixart, Joan Brossa and Arnau Puig, he was responsible for editing and directing the magazine of the same name until 1956.

Before joining this group, Tharrats’s painting moved through post-impressionist and abstract styles, with clear influences from Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh in the former and Kandinsky, Klee, and Mondrian in the latter.

After joining Dau al Set he delved into surrealism and magical abstraction, until he left it in favor of the informalism of large stains, strong chromaticism, and abundant matter that characterizes his classic Maculaturas from 1954 onward.

Around those years, and after the dissolution of Dau al Set, Tharrats also participated in the formation of the Tahüll group (1955) together with Jordi Muxart, Modest Cuixart, Antoni Tàpies, and Josep Guinovart, young Catalan painters who moved between abstraction and neo-figurative art.

Also interested in graphic design, illustration, applied arts, and the publishing world, Tharrats participated in numerous exhibitions both solo (since 1950) and group (since 1948) in the world’s major cities, and his work is exhibited in leading art museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, or the Tate Gallery in London, among others.

He died on July 5, 2001 in Barcelona.