José Adalberto Catalá Yuste - José Catalá, Madrid 1958. Title: Menorca Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 38 x 56 cm. Size as framed: 53 x 70 cm dated 1997 Signature: "J. Català" Provenance: - Property the artist. - Sold to Arte y Naturaleza Gespart S.L. Madrid. - Sale judicially authorized due to Bankruptcy, Commercial Court No. 6 of Madrid. - Private collection, Spain. Condition: good, see photos. About the artist: José Adalberto Català is an artist based in Spain whose paintings have been exhibited nationally. Through his various works, he invites viewers to travel to an "idyllic and fantastic world". Català's distinctive fantastical realist compositions are often imbued with feelings of emptiness and loneliness. He creates mainly with tempera, oils and acrylics. José Catalá Yuste, a self-taught painter from Madrid, began drawing from his childhood, first with graphite, then watercolor and currently with oils. In his long career, he has made more than fifty individual and collective exhibitions in Spain, Europe and Asia. with more than half hundred awards, highlighting his three Medals of Honor from the BMW Award (Madrid) in 1995, 1997 and 1998 and the “Virgen de las Viñas” Acquisition Award (Tomelloso) in 2005, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. “Painting, and art in general; It is not an end, it is a means, the means that the soul has to Express oneself. I think that any theme can become suggestive to be represented by a pencil or brush. You only have to find the plastic message that exists in the images that throughout our lives appear before our eyes, including simpler and less imagined events” (J. Catalá, 2023). “… he captures with equal passion everything that surrounds him, a face, a rural or urban landscape, awakening in the viewer nostalgia, loneliness and a very special melancholy. … it keeps placidly in that enormous charge of nostalgia that is felt above all when he paints, emanated from a drawing that, with the rigor and faded gesture that characterizes its realistic invoice, It affects a frequent presence of emptiness and loneliness. In the plastic trajectory of José Catalá there is an almost existential drive for the ordering of space in time” (José Antonio Tinte, from the magazine El punto de las artes). Source: https://ffe.es/RailArte/catalogoRailArte/files/downloads/catalogo_RailArte.pdf See also; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zoYLlCfRn8 Collective exhibitions: 1994 - Sala de Arte Toisón. - Premio Durán. - Premio Ejército. Palacio de Buena Vista (Madrid) 1995 - Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, IX Premio BMW. 1996 - Sala Ágora 4 (Castellón). - Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, X Premio BMW. 1997 – Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando XI Premio BMW y Galería Nolde (Navacerrada). 1998 - Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando XII Premio BMW 1999 - Exposición Nacional de Artes Plásticas (Valdepeñas). 2000 - XXIII Bienal Internacional de Deporte. 2001 - Feria de Arte de Barcelona ARTEXPO. 2002 - Premio Ejercito, Palacio de Buena Vista, (Madrid) 2003 - Feria de Arte Contemporáneo Sevilla y Feria de Oporto 2004 - Feriarte Valencia, Feria de Arte de Lisboa y Arte-Santander 2005 - “Holland Art Fair” (La Haya) 2005 - Museo Antonio López Torres (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real) y “Estocolmo Art Fair” Estocolmo 2008 - GRABADO Y PINTURA del siglo XIX al XXI. Museo del Ferrocarril (Madrid) Solo exhibitions: 1993 – Museo Nacional del Ferrocarril (Madrid). 1995 – Sala de Arte Toisón (Madrid). 1996 – Galería Infantas (Madrid). 1997 – Sala de Arte “ Dean” (Valencia). 1998 – Museo del Ferrocarril (Madrid). 2000 – Galería Infantas (Madrid) 2005 - Sala Gaudí (Madrid). 2007- Sala Floridablanca (S. Lorenzo de El escorial). 2010- Sala Floridablanca (S. Lorenzo de El escorial). 2012- Cien años de Metro de Madrid, Sala de exposiciones Estación de Retiro (Madrid) Prices: Ø 1980 Primer premio XVIII Certamen “Rincones y Paisajes Madrileños”. 1995 Medalla de Honor IX Premio BMW Ø 1997 Medalla de Honor XI Premio BMW. Primer premio “ENRIQUE GINESTAL” (Talavera de la Reina). Ø 1998 Medalla de Honor en el XII Premio BMW. Ø 1998 Accésit Premio “AGRUPACIÓN MUTUA” (Barcelona). Premio Adquisición del Certamen Nacional de Valdepeñas. Ø 1999 Premio Adquisición Certamen Nacional de Valdepeñas. Medalla de Honor Certamen Nacional “CIUDAD DE TUDELA” Ø 2002 Finalista Premio Ejército (Madrid) Ø 2005 Premio Adquisición “VIRGEN DE LAS VIÑAS” (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real)