Ramón Sanvicens

RAMÓN SANVICENS MARFULL (Barcelona, 1917-1987).
"Mountain village".
Oil on panel.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Size: 78 x 88 cm; 105 x 114 cm (frame).
Painter, draughtsman and engraver. After studying at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Clot (Barcelona) he entered the Escuela de Artes y Oficios Llotja, where he was a disciple of Lluís Muntané. After the Civil War he entered the Sant Jordi School, where his teachers were E. Santasusagna, F. Labarta and E. Monjo. In 1944 he held his first individual exhibition in the Galerías Españolas in Barcelona and in 1945 he lived in Paris, where he studied the works of Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and Bonnard. In 1946 he was awarded the El Paular pension and lived in Holland, where he studied Rembrandt, Vermeer and Franz Hals. In 1957 he was appointed Professor of Painting at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts. In 1986 the last exhibition of the painter's work during his lifetime was held, organised by the Fundación La Caixa in Barcelona, and then moved to Madrid. A month after his death a tribute was dedicated to him at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. A painter recognisable by the joyfulness of his palette and a liberated brushstroke, both characteristics developed after digesting the Parisian avant-garde in a singular way, he developed a post-impressionist style, later evolving towards a very personal fauvism with expressionist overtones.