Frederic Marès

FREDERIC MARÈS DEULOVOL (Portbou, Girona, 1893 - Barcelona, 1991).
"Shepherdess with sheep", c .1923.
Marble.
Measurements: 81 x 70 x 29 cm.
Missing the ear of a sheep.
Exhibitions: MEAM "Un segle de escultura catalana", 2013. Reproduced in the catalog, p. 238.
Frederic Marès trained at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona, later completing his studies abroad. Shortly after completing his training, he joined the teaching staff of the school, a task he did not abandon until his retirement in 1964. The two main activities of Marès, sculptor and collector, frequently obscured his important teaching career, in which he came to share the direction of the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes and the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos de Barcelona, and even to combine them, for a brief period of time, with the presidency of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes. Marès began to work in the workshop of the modernist sculptor Eusebi Arnau, later becoming independent. He is currently represented in the museum that bears his name in Barcelona.