Alfonso Sucasasas

ALFONSO SUCASAS (Goiás, 1940-Ferreira,2012).
"Profile portrait", 1972.
Charcoal on paper.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 34 x 24 cm; 47 x 37 cm (frame).

One of the referents of Galician painting and considered one of the last classics of this discipline in Galicia, he has received numerous posthumous tributes, such as the retrospective at the Novacaixagalicia cultural center in Vigo. An unmistakable style and personal world that revolves around Galician roots but away from folklorisms determined his work. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts. Later he continued his training in Madrid and traveled to Venezuela and Brazil, where he lived for several years. In 1968 he returned definitively to Galicia and developed his career as a painter, first with a socio-political painting to later focus on the interpretation of rural Galicia through a gestural and expressionist painting.