Jordi Teixidor

JORDI TEIXIDOR (Valencia, 1941).
Untitled, 1989.
Colored wax on paper.
Signed and dated.
Measurements: 75 x 55 cm.
Jordi Teixidor trained at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Valencia between the years 1959 and 1964, and, among other recognitions, has been elected Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, and has received the National Prize of Plastic Arts in 2014. One of the most prestigious Spanish abstract artists, Teixidor has exhibited individually and collectively in Europe and America mainly (Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Granada, Seville, San Sebastian, Vallauris in France, Dusseldorf, San Francisco, Mexico City, New York, Santiago de Chile, etc.), although also in other cities such as Moscow. In 1997 the Santa Monica Center and the Guggenheim Museum in New York dedicated an important retrospective to him. Currently, his work is preserved in numerous private collections around the world as well as in important institutions (Guggenheim Museum in New York, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in the same city, Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, Coca-Cola Foundation, Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, Fundación Juan March in Madrid, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California, Museo Salvador Allende in Santiago de Chile, and the Berkeley Art Museum of the University of California in the United States, among others).