Gabino Rey

GABINO REY SANTIAGO (Marín, Pontevedra, 1928 - Barcelona, 2006).
"Flowers and books".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower left corner.
With label on the back of the Sala Parés.
Measurements: 55 x 46 cm; 73 x 64 cm (frame).
Being still a child, at the end of the Civil War, Gabino Rey moved to Barcelona with his family. A disciple of Ramón Rogent, he began to exhibit very young, in the Youth Salon of 1943. He continued to participate in this Salon, where he won a prize in 1946. In the forties he obtained a scholarship from the French Government, and exhibited in the Barcelona galleries Dalmau (1946) and Syra (1947). Since 1957 he has been exhibiting at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, as well as at the Madrid gallery El Cisne. He was awarded in the III Universal Exhibition of the Union of Art, in Bilbao (1947), and in 1980 with the Poussiel Prize of the Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts, of Paris. Together with the Sala Parés group, he showed his work not only in Barcelona, but also in Madrid, Alicante, Pontevedra and Lugo, as well as in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. He is represented in the Museums of Lugo, Pontevedra, Marín and Sitges, and in important institutional and private collections in Europe and America. His style, with post-impressionist roots, is loosely made. Gabino is a painter who likes the matter, the impastoed brushstroke, which he applies following a warm and balanced palette. He has worked landscapes and still lifes, but he stands out especially as a portraitist, with intimate and lyrical works, in which he mixes what he has learned from the Catalan and Galician schools.