Manuel Doblas Pinto "Royo" (1957) - Reflets sur la mer

Signed by the author at the bottom "Royo"

The work is presented framed (the frame has a slight deficiency in one corner)

The condition is good

Dimensions of the artwork: 73 cm high x 60 cm wide

Dimensions of the frame: 76 cm high x 63 cm wide

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Manuel Doblas, born in Humilladero (Málaga) in 1957, but educated 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 starting in 1981 and held his first solo exhibition in 1992, precisely in this same Sala Rusiñol where we find him again today. He has won many prizes in various places and has not hesitated to participate 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 his style, often leads to acquiring recurring ways, in his case has represented a highly useful system to meet himself and properly say what he desires.

Only those who fear explaining believe they will meet 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 when capturing the verticality of skyscrapers and describes abandoned train stations because he is not interested in waiting, but in seeking exits toward a horizon that the iron rails mark, which, after crossing the junctions, stay fixed because they serve the inner movement of people.

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