Joan Barbarà

JOAN BARBARÀ I GÓMEZ (Barcelona, 1927-2013).
"Talassa II".
Engraving.
Signed and titled.
Measurements: 42 x 85 cm (footprint); 62 x 108 cm (paper); 75 x 120 cm (frame).
Engraver and painter, Joan Barbarà is a member of the Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca, and was also an advisor to the Picasso-Raventós Foundation, Ediciones Estampe de arte gráfico and Graphosverlag in Switzerland. He held his first exhibition in Barcelona in 1956, and later showed his work also abroad, in Paris and Bologna. In 1954 he opened his own studio, from which he collaborated as a printmaker with prominent artists of the contemporary European avant-garde, including Masson, Rouault, Villon, Kokoschka, Fontana, Vasarely, Miró, Picasso and Tàpies, among others.