Mercedes Gómez Pablos

MERCEDES GÓMEZ PABLOS (Palma de Mallorca, 1940).
"Houses".
Watercolor on paper.
Signed in the lower margin.
Measurements: 74 x 130 cm; 85 x 140 cm (frame).

Settled since her adolescence in Madrid, she began her training with Eduardo Peña in 1956. Three years later he celebrates his first individual exhibition, in the gallery Club Urbis of the capital. The following year she also exhibited her work at the Ateneo de Barcelona and at the Club de los Poetas de Formentor, receiving an excellent review from Camilo José Cela. In 1961 his work receives several official recognitions in Paris: the Silver Medal of the Villa de Paris in the Musée d'Art Moderne, the Diploma of Honor of the Salon Boudy and the Silver Medal of "Arts, Sciences et Lettres" of Paris. That same year he exhibits individually at the Chase Gallery in New York, again receiving excellent reviews. In 1962 Gómez Pablos participates in several important contests: the Biennial of Zaragoza, the exhibition "Junge Spanische Maler" in Germany and the first National Contest of Plastic Arts in Madrid. He continues with his individual exhibitions, and in 1964 he shows his work at the Paul Cézanne Gallery in Paris. The following year he travels to South America and exhibits at the University of Chile, followed by solo exhibitions in New York (1966), Buenos Aires (1967) and Madrid (1969), the latter commemorating the tenth anniversary of his first exhibition. In the early seventies Gómez Pablos works on his "barcas", which he shows in Barcelona and Madrid. During this decade he will also hold multiple solo exhibitions in the galleries Fauna's, Orfila, Rovira, Seny and Espí, as well as in the Ateneo. She also obtained the special prize in the V and VI editions of the Biennial of Sports in Fine Arts. Since 1979 the painter alternates her residence between Madrid and Paris, until today. That same year she participates in the Basel fair. The following year she held a solo exhibition at the International Forum of Contemporary Art in Paris. During the following years he will continue to hold exhibitions, mainly in Spain and France, and he will also make engravings for bibliophile editions. In 1989 a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him in Madrid, and in 1992 he was again awarded the Silver Medal of the Villa de Paris, as well as the Medal of Honor of the BMW Prize. Again on the occasion of the anniversary of her first exhibition, in 1999 a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to her, this time in Toledo. In 2008 she was elected corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of San Luis, and in 2010 she held an exhibition at the Museum of Engraving in Malaga.