Xaime Quesada

XAIME QUESADA (Orense, 1937-2007).
"Child with cap".
Pastel on paper.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 63 x 52 cm; 83 x 72 cm (frame).

Portraits of children and young mothers were Xaime Quesada's favorite subjects, which he treats here in a sensitive and intimate way. The figure seems to be wrapped in memory gauze.

A painter from Ourense who has become one of the referents of his generation, following the tradition of a family and saga of artists -his father Xaime Quessada, Fernando and Carlos Quesada...- he signed his first exhibition at the age of 19. Spanish painter, engraver, set designer and artist. In 1946 he entered the School of Fine Arts of the Royal Academy of San Fernando. He participated in Galicia in the artistic group O Volter and in Madrid in the so-called Grupo Acento. Since 1960 he developed an intense activity in various exhibitions around the world, settling in Paris in 1962, then moved to America and worked in the 1980s for Unesco in the project of the polyglot version of Don Quixote. His works are transversally crossed by different artistic currents, from impressionism, abstract art, figurativism or expressionism. He was awarded the Gold Medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition in 1959 and the Castelao Medal in 2004, among other awards. His work can be found in different museums around the world, such as the Stuttgart Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art in Mexico, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, the Museum of Pobo Galego and the Museum of Havana. In the last years of his life Xaime Quesada Blanco starred in projects that already showed his potential and what he was called to develop throughout his professional career: the exhibition he signed at the Centro Cultural da Deputación de Ourense, in 2003, or his large format proposals with industrial materials were part of his concerns at that time.