Angel Planells

ANGEL PLANELLS CRUAÑAS (Cadaqués, Girona, 1901 - Barcelona, 1989).
"Surrealist scene", 1979.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 49 x 60 cm; 67 x 78 cm (frame).

Surrealist painter, although not all his work is developed within this movement. Dalí discovered him when he was very young, when he was fascinated by the fantastic drawings he made in the Mallorcan pastel shop in Cadaqués, where he worked. He soon became friends with René Magritte. In 1929 he moves with his family to Blanes, a town to which he will remain linked all his life, in spite of settling in Barcelona. He held his first exhibition in the Dalmau galleries in Barcelona, where he would repeat his presence. Placed among the great avant-garde artists, he exhibited at the First International Exhibition of Surrealism, held at the New Burlington Galleries (1936), together with Dalí, Miró and Óscar Domínguez. He is represented in the most prestigious collections in the world, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Gala Dalí Foundation, in the private collections of André Breton and Luis Buñuel. The Angel Planells Foundation in Blanes is dedicated to the dissemination and preservation of his work. Caja Madrid organized an important retrospective of his work in 2005.