Juan Barjola

JUAN BARJOLA (Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Badajoz, 1919 - Madrid, 2004).
"Madrid".
Engraving, copy PA/7/10.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 76 x 56,5 cm.
Juan Barjola trained at the School of Arts and Crafts in Badajoz and at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid. He made his solo debut in 1957, at the Abril gallery in Madrid, and from then on he held solo exhibitions all over Spain. In 1960, thanks to a grant from the Juan March Foundation, he travelled to Paris and Belgium. Three years later he was awarded the Eugenio d'Ors Medal by the critics, and exhibited at the Dirección General de Bellas Artes. He won the National Prize for Drawing at the National Exhibition of 1968, and in 1985 he was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts. In 2006, the IVAM in Valencia dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him. He is represented in the Museum that bears his name in Oviedo, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Fine Arts Museums of Bilbao and Asturias, the IVAM in Valencia, the Solidarity Museum in Chile, the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza and the Contemporary Art Museums of Vilafamés, Seville, Alicante, Toledo and Cáceres, among many others.