Emilio Ferrer

EMILIO FERRER CABRERA (Cullera, Valencia, 1888 - 1962).
"Walk along the coast of A Coruña", 1933.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Provenance: collection of drawings of the Ferrer Family.
Measurements: 16.5 x 20 cm; 38 x 41 cm (frame).

A painter specializing in Valencian costumbrista themes, Emilio Ferrer Cabrera also masterfully tackled landscape painting. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, and completed his training working with José Mongrell. In 1913 he obtained a scholarship to further his studies in Paris and Rome. In the following years Ferrer exhibited his work in Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona, and in 1920 and 1922 he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. Between the end of 1927 and the beginning of 1928 he traveled to Buenos Aires, where he also exhibited his paintings. He published his works in magazines of the time, such as "La Esfera", and in 1931 he held an important exhibition at the Societat Musical Santa Cecilia de Cullera, where several of his works were sold to British and American collectors. He also made several editorial illustrations, such as those for the Spanish translations of the stories of the Catalan writer Caterina Albert i Paradís, under the pseudonym Víctor Català, published between 1928 and 1929. In 1935 he moves to Ceuta, where he will occupy a teaching position at the Hispano-Moroccan Institute, and there he will be surprised by the Civil War. He dedicated himself first to portraiture and later to photography, although after the war he gradually returned to painting. In 1988, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, several celebrations were dedicated to him in Cullera. He is currently represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia.