Ramon Sanvicens

RAMÓN SANVICENS MARFULL (Barcelona, 1917-1987).
"Bellmunt del Priorat", 1983.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Measurements: 74 x 93 cm; 93 x 115 cm (frame).

Painter recognizable by the joy of his palette and a liberated brushstroke, both characteristics developed after digesting in a singular way the Parisian avant-garde, Sanvicens developed a work of post-impressionist character to later, evolve towards a very personal fauvism with nuances of expressionist character, as we see here.
Painter, draftsman and engraver. After studying at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Clot (Barcelona) he entered the Escuela de Artes y Oficios Llotja, where he was a disciple of Lluís Muntané. After the Civil War he entered the School of Sant Jordi, where his teachers were E. Santasusagna, F. Labarta and E. Monjo. In 1944 he had his first individual exhibition in the Spanish Galleries of Barcelona and in 1945 he resided in Paris, where he studied the works of Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and Bonnard. In 1946 he obtained the pension El Paular and lived in Holland, where he studied Rembrandt, Vermeer and Franz Hals. In 1957 he was appointed Professor of Painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. In 1986 the last exhibition of the painter's life was held, organized by the Fundació La Caixa in Barcelona, an exhibition that was moved to Madrid. A month after his death a tribute was dedicated to him at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc.