Pere Clapera Argelaguer (1906-1984) - Carromatos

Oil on canvas 41 x 51 cm, signed in the lower left. The frame is not included in the sale, but it is sent as a gift.

Pere Clapera Argelaguer (Sant Fruitós de Bages, April 12, 1906 - Barcelona, 1984).

He began in art influenced by Ramon Casas, who stayed for long periods at the monastery of Sant Benet de Bages, near the town of Sant Fruitós de Bages. From the 1920s Pere Clapera began to draw in Barcelona humorous newspapers such as Pierrot. Later he participated in solo exhibitions of a monographic nature: cinematographic aspects, landscapes of the Costa Brava, compositions of theater and ballet magazines, paintings and drawings of Flamenco dance and, above all, circus scenes. As a young man he went to Barcelona, and in the 1920s he worked as an illustrator of novels.

In 1943 he exhibited at the Sala Rovira in Barcelona and in 1948 at the 'Exposición Nacional' of Madrid, where he repeated in 1950, also participating in an exhibition at the Sala Rovira in Barcelona. In 1951 he participated in the I Hispano-American Biennial of Art in the drawing and print section with a landscape work, and a year later, in 1952, in an exhibition at the Casa de América in Madrid with 25 watercolors of scenes of dance and singing, and also with scenes of ballets. In 1959 Pere Clapera participated with an exhibition of oils and watercolors in the rooms of the Catalan Circle of Madrid with themes of circus, dances and gypsies. In 1960 he participated in the National Fine Arts Exhibition. In 1961 he again exhibited at the Sala Rovira in Barcelona, highlighting his production of circus scenes."