Ramon Barnadas

RAMÓN BARNADAS FÁBREGAS (Olot, Girona, 1909 - Vic, Barcelona, 1981).
"Landscape", 1952.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 59 x 72 cm; 80 x 93 cm (frame).

Precocious painter, with ten years he enters the School of Fine Arts of Olot, and debuts individually in 1929, in the Layetanas Galleries of Barcelona. Only six years later he was appointed professor at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown. He exhibited his work in Spain, Mexico and Switzerland, and won first prizes at the National Exhibition of Madrid and the International Exhibition of Palamós, the national landscape prize of the Estrada Foundation and the Ricardo Portabella prize. Barnadas, with his sketchy style, went beyond the lessons learned from realism and impressionism, becoming part of the evolutionary avant-garde of Catalonia at the time. In 2006 the cultural center Fontana d'Or in Girona hosted a retrospective exhibition dedicated to this author, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, and that same year another exhibition was dedicated to him, organized by the Caixa de Girona. Between December 2008 and January 2009 the gallery Les Voltes de Olot presented a selection of his works on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.