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 Portrait of Mari (Retrato de Mari), 1958 Antonio SAURA (1930–1998) Portrait of Mari (Retrato de Mari), 1958 Oil on canvas (óleo sobre lienzo) Gift of the Estates of Sylvia and Joseph Slifka, 04.03 Antonio Saura is considered one of the most important Spanish painters of the post–World War II generation. Born in the province of Aragón, Saura began his career as a self-taught artist and in 1953 he moved to Paris, where he became involved with the Surrealists. The critic Michel Tapié introduced him to the social circles of the latest Parisian avant-garde, the Informalists. In 1957, along with other artists and critics such as Millares, Canogar, and Luis Feito, he founded the group El Paso in Madrid, one of the first avant-garde movements in Spain under General Franco. Many of the principles of this new Spanish movement were rooted in European Informalism and American Abstract Expressionism. Saura’s works from this period, such as Portrait of Mari, are characterized by the use of thick layers of paint applied in an abstract manner as well as the use of a very limited palette of colors. This canvas fills the art historical void in the collection between Joan Miro’s The Circus (Le Cirque) of 1937 and Antoni Tàpies’s Grand Noir of 1973. Antonio Saura está considerado como uno de los artistas españoles punteros de la generación posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nacido en la provincia de Aragón, Saura fue un pintor autodidacta, si bien en 1953 viajó a París en donde se implicó con el movimiento surrealista. Posteriormente, el crítico Michel Tapié le introdujo en el ambiente de de la última vanguardia parisina, la del Informalismo. En 1957, junto con críticos y otros artistas como Millares, Canogar y Luis Feito, fundó el grupo El Paso en Madrid. Provenance |
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