Eustaquio Segrelles

EUSTAQUIO SEGRELLES DEL PILAR (Albaida, Valencia, 1936).
"Malvarrosa Beach, Valencia", 1992.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Measurements: 80 x 100 cm; 108 x 129 cm (frame).
Segrelles was formed in Valencia, in the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos and in the Academy Vicente Barreira. He began his career as an illustrator and cartoonist, working for the publishing houses Maga, Bardon Press, Selecciones Ilustradas and Bruguera between 1955 and 1972. His first personal exhibition of relevance took place at the Círculo Mercantil de Onteniente, in 1957. In 1967 he was selected by the Agrupación Nacional de Bellas Artes to exhibit in New York and Copenhagen, and in 1972 he obtained a scholarship from the Valencia City Council to complete his training at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid. The following year he received a scholarship to paint in El Aaiún, then Spanish Sahara. During the following years he held personal exhibitions in various galleries in Valencia, Bilbao, Madrid, Zaragoza, Castellón and Tarragona. From the seventies onwards he began his international projection, which led him to hold countless exhibitions in Spain, Portugal, France, the United States, Jordan, Australia, Japan, etc. Segrelles is a member of the Accademia Internazionale Greci-Marino in Italy, and has been awarded, throughout his career, with the First Prize for Outdoor Painting of the City of Valencia (1964), the Medal of Artistic Merit of the Ministry of Information and Tourism (1970), the First Prize Karman in Seville (1973), the Prize of the Diputación de Barcelona (1976) and the International Prize and Gold Medal Villa de Pego (Alicante, 1976). Segrelles' artistic personality is characterized by the use of solid and clear colors, vibrant and of great expressive force. To his peculiar palette joins a studied and constant play of light, faithful to the light of the Mediterranean and of his land, Valencia. Heir to the purest Mediterranean luminism, he speaks to us through his brushes of the life of the fishermen of the Levantine coast, with a great expressive facility and an outstanding technique. Segrelles is currently represented in the Museo de Dibujo Castillo de Larrés, in Huesca.