José Palmeiro

JOSÉ PALMEIRO (Madrid, 1903 - Bergerac, France, 1984).
"The field", 1970.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left corner. Framed, dated and titled on the back.
Measurements. 54 x 73 cm; 74 x 93 cm (frame).
Painter strongly linked to the French post-impressionist tradition, Palmeiro develops a work marked by his very personal and audacious palette, that some have approached to the fauvist modes. In search of new artistic horizons, he settled in Paris in 1925, where he was influenced by the impressionist and post-impressionist masters. After a period of submission to drawing, his language evolved towards the preeminence of a coloring that he began to apply in large masses, abandoning tonal gradation in favor of the juxtaposition of planes. His universe becomes exuberant, resounding, of perfect harmony and accentuated physical presence. Fully integrated in the circles of the School of Paris, Palmeiro made his individual debut during the thirties, and between 1942 and 1946 he worked exclusively for the Eliseo Gallery in Paris, along with other artists such as Picasso, Bores, Clavé and Óscar Domínguez. It was during these years when he reflected in his painting a light that, instead of enhancing and modeling the objects, radiates from them. In 1948 he traveled to America, and after ten years he returned to Paris, already fully integrated in the international art circuits. He held frequent exhibitions in Paris and London, a city where his painting was especially in demand, as well as in Spain, where he reiterated his presence mainly from 1972 onwards, in Madrid, Barcelona and Vigo. José Palmeiro is represented in the Jaime Trigo Art Center in Pontevedra and in the Caixavigo collection, as well as in several Spanish and foreign private collections.