Agustín Alegre Monferrer (1936) - Contraluz

The work is signed on the back by the artist and dated the year 1975

Also titled "Contraluz, Alcocebre, Castellón"

The condition of the work is good

The work is presented framed

Dimensions of the work: 65 cm high x 50 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 100 cm high x 84 cm wide

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Artist biography:

Painter born in the town of Santa Eulalia del Campo in Teruel in 1936. He studied in Teruel and at the San Carlos Academy in Valencia, funded by the Provincial Council of Teruel. A master of contemporary Spanish figurative painting, Agustín had a younger brother, Fermín, who also pursued painting: "He was realistic like me, more agreeable, he liked light more, he was more Levantine."

He has his painting studio in Villa Miriam – named after his autistic daughter – located on Leocadio Brun Street in Teruel. He was a teacher at the Las Anejas school in Teruel. It is known that he was a friend and fellow student, at the San Carlos Academy in Valencia, of Paco Pérez Monleón, the sculptor José Gonzalvo, and the sculptor and friend Isaac Rodríguez from Jabaloyas, "an artist with incredible abilities," according to Alegre.

His painting is based on maintaining figurativeness and on practicing perfect technique in solid drawing and in the sense of color. A very identifying feature of his style is the romantic atmosphere of his characters and the treatment of bursts of light in contrast with dark masses that recall the Spanish tenebrism of the Baroque.

He has exhibited in Madrid, Milan, Zaragoza and Valencia, among many other cities. He received, among others, the Moncada Prize in 1995; the Gold Medal of Benimar in 1957; several City of Albarracín prizes; the first prize for Outdoor Painting of Logroño in 1969; the Africa Medal at the Exposition of African Painters in 1974; the third medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1976 and the Preciados Galleries Prize in 1977, among others. He received the Gold Medal of the City of Teruel (one of the prizes he is most proud of). A street in Teruel bears his name.

If we had to highlight one painting, we would choose the Burial of Santa Eulalia, and it was donated by the artist in 1963 to the hermitage of the Virgen del Molino. This painting is located above ‘The Choir’ of noble woods worked in an artisanal way, which is at the other end of the main altar, preserved with care, as everything that represents this emblematic place thanks to the effort, dedication, and sleeplessness that the ‘Hermandad de la Virgen’, responsible for maintenance, all volunteers, develops with the most tenacious spirit.