Josep Busquets

JOSEP BUSQUETS ÓDENA (Fontscaldes, Tarragona, 1914 - Barcelona, 1998).
"Face".
Mold for lost wax bronze sculpture casting.
Wax and plastic.
Measurements: 18 x 19 x 5 cm.

Josep Busquets Odena began his artistic training in the School of Work of Valls, passing later through the Workshop-School of Tarragona, having in this last center outstanding teachers like Joan Rebull and Salvador Martorell; later he settles definitively in Barcelona, but he will always maintain the links with the city of Valls and from where he will receive diverse sculptural orders. The Civil War momentarily truncated his career and when it was over, at the age of twenty-six he resumed his career by making religious works for temples that had seen their artistic heritage destroyed. One of his greatest works was the reproduction of the main altarpiece for the parish church of San Juan in Valls, and he also made processional steps for Easter Week. With his marriage in 1942 he settled in Barcelona, where he opened his workshop in the district of Gracia, moving later to the district of Horta, Busquets made several trips to Greece, Italy and Paris, places that were a source of inspiration in his sculptural work, his first exhibition was in the Collective of the Reig Galleries, his first solo exhibition was in 1943 in the Campañá Galleries; He exhibited regularly in the Syra Galleries and the Sala Parés, he also exhibited in the Salón de Arte Los Madrazo and the Galería El Cisne, both in Madrid.