Jordi Curós

JORDI CURÓS I VENTURA (Olot, Girona, 1930-Barcelona, 2017).
"Male portrait", 1953.
Wax on paper.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
The paper has slight stains.
Measures: 29.5 x 20.5 cm; 53.5 x 43 cm (frame).
Trained at the Olot School of Arts and Crafts, Jordi Curós travelled to Paris on a scholarship from the Institut Français in Barcelona. He was a member of the Sala Parés group, where he exhibited successively between 1965 and 1989, and received the Ynglada-Guillot drawing prize in 1967. He is represented in the MACBA, the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona, the Zabaleta Museum in Jaén, the Museum of Modern Art in Olot, the Balaguer Museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Museum of Painting in Sant Pol, the Provincial Council of Girona, the Provincial Museums of Pontevedra and Lugo, the Municipal Museum of Badalona, the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza and the Museum of the Empordà.