Carlos Ruano

CARLOS RUANO LLOPIS (Alicante, 1879 - Mexico City, 1950)
"Woman with red carnation", 1942.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 65 x 54 cm; 82 x 71 cm (frame).

Painter and poster artist trained at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos, won the gold medal at the Regional Exhibition of Valencia in 1909. In 1912 he made the first of his famous bullfighting posters. He exhibited in Valencia, Madrid, Bilbao, Marseilles and Paris, and collaborated with "La Esfera", "Mundo Gráfico", "El Mercantil Valenciano", etc. In 1934 he settled permanently in Mexico and promoted his international career, with personal exhibitions in Mexico (1938, 1949), Caracas (1949), New York (1945) and Philadelphia. He is considered today the best bullfighting poster artist, a genre in which he established a prototype that has endured to the present day.