Manuel Viola

MANUEL VIOLA (Zaragoza, 1916 - San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 1987).
Untitled.
Oil on panel.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 20 x 15 cm; 25 x 30 cm (frame).
After beginning his studies in Barcelona, at the end of the Civil War Viola went into exile in France, where he began to exhibit his works in the exhibitions of the so-called Spanish School of Paris. He returned to Spain in 1949, and in 1958 his truly personal style began, while he joined the avant-garde pictorial group El Paso, which included, among others, Saura, Canogar, Feito and Millares. He has been awarded prizes such as the Condado de San Jorge, the Lissones (Milan) or the Gold Medal of the City of Zaragoza. He has exhibited in the most important galleries in Spain and also abroad, in cities such as Oslo, New York, Venice, Sao Paulo and Houston. Manuel Viola's work can be seen at the Reina Sofia Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Cologne, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, and the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca, among many others.