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Modest Cuixart

Auction Lot 35028658
MODEST CUIXART I TÀPIES (Barcelona, 1925 - Palafrugell, Girona, 2007).
Untitled, Madrid, 1970.
Mixed media on paper.
Signed and dated in the upper left corner.
Certified by the artist on the back.
Measurements: 36 x 50 cm; 52 x 63 cm (frame).

Estimated Value : 2,000 - 2,400 €


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DESCRIPTION

MODEST CUIXART I TÀPIES (Barcelona, 1925 - Palafrugell, Girona, 2007).
Untitled, Madrid, 1970.
Mixed media on paper.
Signed and dated in the upper left corner.
Certified by the artist on the back.
Size: 36 x 50 cm; 52 x 63 cm (frame).
Cuixart initially studied medicine, but soon abandoned his studies to devote himself to painting and entered the Academia Libre de Pintura in Barcelona. In 1948 he took part in the founding of the group Dau al Set, together with Brossa, Ponç, Tàpies and Tharrats, among others. Concerned with the plastic value of the sign, his work has from the outset a strong kinship with surrealism, as well as a great sensitivity towards the expressive power of colour. Towards 1955 he immersed himself in material informalism. In 1959 he won first prize at the São Paulo Biennial and exhibited at the Documenta in Kassel, and the following year he took part in an exhibition of Spanish avant-garde works at the Tate Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In the 1970s he exhibited in numerous national and international capitals, including Paris, Madrid, São Paulo, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Basel, Barcelona and Milan, among others. In the following decade, Cuixart gradually freed his painting from its aggressive aspects to give it a more lyrical tone. He also took part in a group exhibition at the Palais de l'UNESCO in Paris, was awarded the Cross of Saint George by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Cross of Isabella the Catholic. In 1988 he holds an anthological exhibition in Japan, in the cities of Kobe and Tokyo. He continues to work with exuberant colours and forms, and reincorporates a more material figuration into his work. In 1998 the foundation named after him was created in Palafrugell, and the following year he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts by the Ministry of Culture. He is represented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Tate Gallery in London, the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, the Contemporary Art Museums of Madrid, Barcelona and Saint-Etienne (France), the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Museo de Grabado Español Contemporáneo in Marbella, the Museo de Arte de la Universidad de São Paulo, the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca and the Museo del Ampurdán, among many others.

COMMENTS

This lot can be seen at the Setdart Barcelona Gallery located at C/Aragón, 346.

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