19th Century Paintings including Spanish

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Lot 189
  • 189

Eugenio Granell Madrid 1912-2001

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Description

  • Eugenio Granell
  • Un faro al viento (The lighthouse)

  • signed and titled UN FARO AL VIENTO / E. GRANELL on the reverse

  • oil on board
  • 122 by 71.3cm., 48 by 28 1/8 in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Exhibited

Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Eugenio Granell Exposición Antológica. 1940-1990, 1990, p. 137 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue)

Catalogue Note

Painted in 1952. At the forefront of the Surrealist Movement, Granell was acquainted with all the leading Surrealists and Dadaists in Paris in the 1930s, including André Breton (fig. 1) and Wilfredo Lam. Leaving Spain for Puerto Rico during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Granell worked at the University there, where he became an influential teacher.

FIG. 1, Photograph of André Breton with Granell ------ digi ref 'Breton-Granell'