Francisco Llorens

FRANCISCO LLORENS DÍAZ (A Coruña, 1874 - Madrid, 1948).
"Landscape with church". 1929.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 50 x 34 cm; 74 x 57 cm (frame).

Three cypresses are aligned to the foreground, hiding next to high pines the houses of a town of which we only saw some roofs and turrets. Francisco Llorens uses here a palette rich in green shades (dark and emerald with lemon and cerulean touches). Resolved in post-impressionist language and close to Cezanne, the author manages with ease at a compositional and plastic level.

Trained in Madrid, Francisco Llorens was awarded an honorary mention at the National Exhibition of 1895, and in 1903 he obtained a pension to further his studies in Rome. He also visited the Netherlands, and continued to participate in the National Exhibitions, being awarded a third medal in 1907. Later he will also obtain second medal (1908) and first (1922), titles that are added to others obtained in the International of Barcelona (1907), the International of Buenos Aires (1910) and the Universal of Panama (1916). He was also Grand Cross of the Crown of Belgium and honorary member of the Salón de Otoño, as well as a full member of the Real Academia de San Fernando since 1943. After the interruption of his activity due to the civil war, at the end of the war he was appointed honorary member of the Royal Galician Academy, and became a professor of landscape painting at the School of San Fernando. He is currently represented in the Prado Museum, the Nova Caixa Galicia Collection, the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, all the museums in Galicia and in numerous provincial museums in Spain and America.