Artur Carbonell

ARTUR CARBONELL CARBONELL (Sitges, Barcelona, 1906 - 1973).
"Young man".
Mixed media on paper.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 47 x 33 cm; 60 x 46 cm (frame).
Painter, scenographer and theater director, Artur Carbonell actively participated in the surrealist movement. He made his work known through the magazine "L'Amic de les Arts", and made his debut in 1930 at the Galaerías Dalmau in Barcelona, presented by Sebastián Gasch. Between 1930 and 1936 he presented contemporary and classical plays in Sitges and Barcelona. In 1940 he was appointed professor at the Theater Institute in Barcelona, and the following year he resumed directing and decorating theatrical shows. Carbonell's works present backgrounds that suggest spaces, isolated forms of transparent volumes and marked lines, in mechanical equilibrium. He is represented at the National Art Museum of Catalonia and at the Maricel in Sitges.