Eduardo Sales

EDUARDO SALES (Valencia, 1927)
"Abstraction".
Mixed media on tablex.
Signed on the lower edge.
Measurements: 25 x 25 cm.
Artist belonging to the group of the avant-garde regeneration, making his appearance at the beginning of the fifties with the group "Los Instropectistas", renewing the post-war Valencian artistic panorama. In 1945 he entered the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts and became a disciple of Salvador Tusset, Ricardo Verde and Vicente Beltrán and came into contact with Federico Montañana, Eusebio Sempere and Juan Genovés.
Sales' work, with an impressionist key, was combined with the exquisite arrangement of planes and chromatic masses, combined with echoes reminiscent of muralism. His work has always tended to evolve, because what at the beginning was shown with sudden strokes of colour and repainting, towards the eighties he began to perceive a dissolution of the figurative accompanied by the appearance of almost formal resources.
In his painting, he has maintained the sense of subjective figuration of previous pictorial stages, in which figurative and abstract elements are combined, as in the case of the present work "Still Life" from 1993. His career has been difficult to pigeonhole from the beginning due to the constant evolution that reveals the need to experiment and investigate in the pictorial field in order to find different and revolutionary results. Apart from his pictorial activity, he has devoted himself to teaching as a teacher of natural drawing, transferring his knowledge to young artists.