Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) - Le Petit Ami

- Color lithograph on paper. Edition of 14/80, signed in pencil.

- In the printed image and in the lithograph by Emilio Grau Sala, there beats a shelter of weightless beauty and refinement that captivated the postwar Spanish collectors, hungry for light and beauty after the hardship of the conflict. His scenes of races in Longchamp, bourgeois drawing rooms, and Parisian terraces bathed in a smiling elegance functioned in mid-20th-century galleries as the most coveted escape passport: a first-class ticket back to the Belle Époque. The Barcelona master, based in the French capital, sublimated frivolity until it became high visual poetry, using a delicate line and a palette of vibrant nuances that stripped the world of all gravity, gifting the spectator the sweet and eternal illusion of a Paris where life is a Sunday stroll under a parasol.

- Image dimensions without a frame: Folio: 75 x 56 cm; Overall, framed: 60 x 37.5 cm

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