Manuel Ángeles Ortiz

MANUEL ANGELES ORTIZ (Jaén, 1895 - Paris, 1984).
"Woman".
Ink and graphite on cardboard.
Presents damages in the frame.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 31 x 20 cm; 72 x 62 cm (frame).
Representative of the Spanish School of Paris, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz initiates his formation in Granada, in the study of José Larrocha. Later he will complete his studies in the Superior School of Industrial Arts of the city, to then move to Madrid, where he continues his training in the workshop of Cecilio Plá. In 1915 he made his debut in a collective exhibition, receiving very good reviews in the local press. At the beginning of the twenties he moves to Paris, where he will have in Picasso his main support and first enthusiast. There he had his first individual exhibition, held at the Quatre Chemins gallery in 1926. In 1932 he returned to Spain, but his anti-fascist stance led him to go first to Paris and then to Buenos Aires, where he was fully integrated into the artistic environment and lived until 1948, when he returned to Paris for good. He is currently represented in the Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid, the ARTIUM in Vitoria, the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Contemporary Art Museum in Seville, the Fine Arts Museum in Grenoble, the Federico García Lorca, Mapfre and Telefónica Foundations and the Bargera Gallery in Cologne, among other public and private collections.