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The work is signed by the artist at the bottom "grau santos" and titled "Barricadas"

It is in good condition

The painting is framed

Dimensions of the painting: 34 cm high x 24 cm wide.

Dimensions of the frame: 46 cm high x 36 cm wide.

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Biography of Julián Grau Santos (Canfranc, Huesca, 1937) 

Spanish painter, born in Canfranc (Huesca) in 1937, although he feels Catalan for family descent and training. His parents were from Figueras (Girona) where he attended high school before moving to Barcelona to study fine arts.

Heir to a family tradition, he is the son of the late Emilio Grau Sala, a significant name of the Paris school, and of the painter Ángeles Santos, a prominent member of the group of surrealist painters of the 1920s nor should we forget the personality of his uncle Rafael Santos Torrella, poet and critic.

However, despite his background, Grau Santos is a totally independent painter, not attached to any group. his work is completely realistic. He began as a painter at the age of 18 in Zaragoza, consecrating himself ten years later, when he joined the group of artists from the Sala Parés in Barcelona. Of remarkable importance was his meeting with Ramón Gaya in 1960, from whom he learned, among other things, to meet Velázquez, Murillo, Titian, Rubens, Rosales and other great masters, and to distance himself from the avantgarde.

After this experience, he enrolled in the school of fine arts at the fish market to learn the trade. In these early years he was highly influenced, in addition to Van Gogh, and impressionists such as Sisley or Cezanne, whom he discovered on his first visits to Paris.

In 1962 he began to play at destroying forms, with an expressionist influence from authors like Soutine. then he returned to the Catalan figurative tradition, until, around 1964, he found his own style, in which still life and interior scenes have a very important role. in 1978 he settled permanently in Madrid and delved into the intimate nature of his painting. from here the landscape, especially the garden of your house, will have a special role.

passionate reader of Machado, Galdós, Azorín and Unamuno, believes that "the landscape is like a metaphor". He has painted almost all of Spain, Murcia, Andalusia, Sitges, Cuenca ... He has dedicated so many canvases to the latter city that the writer Raúl Torres has published a book on the Grau Santos Basin. Bullfighter, his works also include bullfighting themes.

He has also worked as an illustrator. the last titles illustrated by him are “Cartas a Tobías”, by Antonio Gala; El disputado voto by Señor Cayo, El tesoro o cartas de un Sexagenario Voluptuoso, by Miguel Delibes. He has also illustrated a book by Bergamín. He has also been a regular contributor to ABC and Blanco y Negro, and since 1998 to the cultural supplement that publishes the newspaper La Razón.
According to critics, his work highlights the series of views of the Barcelona port, taken from his studio in the Plaza de Medinaceli in the early 1960s (between 1962 and 1964), or the one dedicated to the "Madrid gardens" (1981 ), the result of a municipal commission.
Since 1980 he has been a member of the Paris national fine arts society. Throughout his long career as a painter, he has been awarded numerous times. in 1963 he obtained the first Fortuny prize in Reus, Tarragona; in 1967 he was awarded the city of Palamós award, a year later he obtained the silver medal at the exhibition of french artists, at the grand palais of Paris. in 1972 he received the first prize for the city of Barcelona, and in 1976 he was awarded the prize for the biennial city of Huesca. in 1981 she was awarded the countess of Barcelona and a year later she got the Penagos.

Mixed media - Hand signed - c.1975

Julián Grau Santos (1937) - Barricadas

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