José Guerrero

JOSÉ GUERRERO (Granada, 1914 - Barcelona, 1991).
"Homage to Zóbel", 1887.
Silkscreen and collé paper in 10 inks on Guarro paper. Copy V/ XIII.
Work reproduced in: Elena Díaz Escudero, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco, Francisco Baena Díaz, "José Guerrero: Obra gráfica, catálogo razonado 1950-1991", Ed.Centro José Guerrero, Diputación de Granada, Granada 2017, nº 102, p.241.
Signed and justified.
Measurements: 70 x 50 cm; 82.5 x 64.5 cm (frame).
In this silkscreen José Guerrero evokes with the gestural force of the stroke and the contrast of chromatic intensities a whole world of emotions. It is a fully informalist work, built with a language that values the randomness of the material and the brushstroke, the intense and emotional stroke, the expressiveness of emptiness and the unforeseen.
Painter and engraver, José Guerrero developed his work within abstract expressionism. He trained in Granada, Madrid and Paris. Upon his arrival in New York in 1950, he discovered abstract expressionism, which would be a decisive influence on his work from that moment on. In 1954 he exhibited with Joan Miró at the Art Club of Chicago, an exhibition that meant his definitive international projection. In 1959 he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and in 1976 his first anthological exhibition was held in his hometown. In 1984 he received the Gold Medal of Fine Arts, and in 1989 he was decorated by the Rodriguez Acosta Foundation. He is represented in the art center that bears his name in Granada, the Guggenheim Museum, the MoMA and the Metropolitan in New York, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the British Museum and the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, among others.