Ignacio Gil Sala

IGNACIO GIL SALA (Barcelona, 1913 - 2003).
"On the coast".
Oil táblex.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Requires cleaning.
Measurements: 38 x 46 cm; 57,5 x 65 cm (frame).

Ignacio Gil Sala began painting at a very early age, when he was only nine years old, when he began his training at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, under the guidance of Felix Mestres and Vicente Borras. In 1930 he was awarded the Bronze Medal of the aforementioned school, and in 1936 he won one of its scholarships. Throughout his long career he exhibited both in Spain and abroad, in France, the Philippines, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, Colombia and other countries. He usually dedicated himself to landscapes and subjects of a costumbrist or exotic tone, portraying, for example, corners of Barcelona or Mallorca, the popular life in small Ibizan villages, the atmosphere of the Arab souks or the peculiar charm of the villages of the Andes, which he got to know in his numerous travels. His brushstrokes are spontaneous and undone, with sketched lines and bright colors. This can be seen in this canvas where the painter portrays a street in a small Ibizan village. The artist reproduces the intense luminosity of the Mediterranean island through the blue sky and the dazzling white walls of the houses. A woman holding a girl by the hand and a cart pulled by a donkey enliven the scene. Ignacio Gil Sala decorated, in 1955, the cathedral and the main altar of the Seminary of Ibiza, in the first case with twelve large paintings, and has works exhibited in museums in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Valencia and Rome.