Enric Cristòfor Ricart

ENRIC CRISTÒFOR RICART I NIN (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1893-1960).
"Female nude", 1920.
Pencil drawing on paper.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 26 x 20 cm; 38 x 32 cm (frame).

Painter, engraver, one of the maximum exponents of the Novecentismo. Formed in the School of Art Galí, where he coincided with Joan Miró, with whom he shared workshop in Barcelona. Co-founder of the Agrupación Courbet, editor of the magazine Themis and member of the so-called School of Vilanova. At the age of eleven he attended the Francisco de Asís Galí Art School, where he coincided with Joan Miró, with whom he would later share a studio on Calle Bajo de San Pedro. He completed his training at the Escuela de Bellos Oficios. In 1914 he made his first trip to Florence, where he met his friend Rafael Sala. In this city he saw for the first time an engraved boxwood plate. This discovery will lead him to self-learning in the technique of engraving, a technique that he will never abandon and of which he will become a true scholar and his best known artistic side. He exhibited individually for the first time in the Dalmau Galleries and, shortly after, together with Rafael Sala and Josep Francesc Ràfols. This collaboration was the reason why some critics of the time spoke of the Vilanova School. The three artists also coincided in the editorial staff of the avant-garde magazine Themis. He was founder of the Agrupación Courbet and col - Labor with other publications with texts and / or illustrations. Enric C. Ricart is the most prominent representative of the renaissance of the Catalan woodcut and one of the artists of reference of the Catalan Noucentisme.