Pablo Uranga

PABLO URANGA DÍAZ DE ARCAYA (Vitoria, 1861 - San Sebastián, 1934).
"Rioja Landscape", ca. 1927.
Oil on panel.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Work reproduced in colour in "Pablo Uranga. El bohemio de Elgeta", Museum of Fine Arts of Álava, Provincial Council of Álava, p. 139. n.32.
Measurements: 65 x 51 cm; 84.5 x 70.5 cm (frame).
Pablo Uranga offers us in this canvas a rural landscape of Labastida, a Spanish municipality in the province of Álava. It is a work made up of short, rectangular brushstrokes, full of matter. Pablo Uranga was a Spanish painter whose artistic career began at the Álava School of Fine Arts, where he studied until 1880. In that year he moved to Madrid and continued his training at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Thanks to the influence of the sculptor Paco Durrio, he then travelled to Paris, where he met artists such as Ignacio Zuloaga and Santiago Rusiño and held his first exhibition in 1897. On returning to Spain, he moved to the Basque Country and made frequent trips to Segovia to spend long periods with Ignacio Zuloaga in the studio of the ceramist Daniel Zuloaga, Zuloaga's uncle. From that trip to France his work was marked by Impressionism, although his predilection for and knowledge of the Spanish classical school can also be appreciated. His subject matter is very varied, although his portraits, landscapes and works related to the world of bullfighting are particularly noteworthy. His works have been exhibited in Zaragoza, Bilbao, Madrid, etc., and his works can be found in important private collections and institutions such as the Museo del Prado and the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, etc.