Artist: Àlvar Suñol
Title: Estimant la Natura (Loving Nature)
Year created: 1995
Medium: Original Hand-Embossed 14-Color Lithograph, with Water-Colored Border
Edition: Limited Edition, 109/200, Hand-signed and Numbered
Framed Height (inches): 32-1/4
Framed Width (inches): 37
Unframed Approx. Dimensions (inches): 25-1/5 x 30-1/5
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
Description of piece:
“The paintings of Alvar Suñol are transcendent and divine creations. Even though oil paintings are made from linen canvas, oil paints and pigments, wooden stretchers and varnish, his paintings are literally windows or doorways into the spiritual world”.
– Scott Peck, from: Divine Inspirations: The Spiritual Paintings of Alvar Suñol, 2017
Àlvar Suñol’s beautiful and lyrical Estimant la Natura translates, in the Artist’s native Catalan language, to “Loving Nature”. Replete with beautifully, gently-rendered nature elements— flowers, fruits, doves and other birds— the artwork is a soothing and captivating showpiece.
Light, bright colors are juxtaposed with rich, jewel-toned colors. Two figures with highly stylized, classical features gaze upon fruits and flowers, while a pair of doves, almost in mirror image, face the figures in the composition. A deeply embossed floral pattern has been hand-applied, as has been the hand-coloring in the highly detailed borders.
The artwork is like a jewel-box: filled with color and detail, and nature elements, and conveying a sense of contained safety and sanctuary.
This original, hand-embossed limited edition 14-color lithograph is hand-signed and numbered by the Artist, lower right image area, in pencil. Edition number 109/200. The intricately detailed border is hand-watercolored. The plate(s) for this original artwork were destroyed, de-faced, or cancelled after the limited edition production was created.
The work comes elegantly framed, in a classic gold metal frame, with framed size measuring 32-1/4” in height x 37" width. Double-layer matting, in cream and deep blue, complete the presentation.
The work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Artist bio:
Àlvar Suñol was born in 1935 in Montgat, Spain. As an artist, he is frequently referred to as “Àlvar”.
Àlvar’s career has spanned over six-decades. Showing great artistic talent as a youth, he first attended the prestigious Sant Jordi Art School in Barcelona at age 16. By age 18, he had won the Alhambra de Granada grant, a summer scholarship that allowed him to travel and paint throughout Spain. Returning home, Àlvar entered a painting in competition for the Young Painter's Prize sponsored by the City of Barcelona. He won the Grand Prize, and the painting was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona for its permanent collection.
Àlvar arrived in Paris in 1959 to paint; by 1960, Àlvar had become part of the artist stable at the influential Galerie Drouant in Paris. He was acclaimed by the eminent critic, Jacques Lassaigne, who invited him to take part in the Salon School of Paris in 1960, a group of the top young artists in Spain, organized by the Charpentier Gallery. In Paris in the 1960s, he exhibited with other prestigious Spanish artists, including Joan Miró, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. In 1962, his work was introduced to American collectors and art aficionados with his first United States exhibition at the Monede Gallery in New York.
Major retrospectives of Àlvar’s work have been mounted in recent years: In 2014, Àlvar Suñol: Una antològica des del 1954-2014 at the Casa de Cultura de la Diputació de Girona in Girona, Spain; in 2015, Passat i Present 1954-2015, at the Castell de Benedormiens, Castell d’Aro, Spain; in 2015, Interiors at the Museu de la Mediterrània, Girona, Spain; and in 2016, Una Vida Pintant 1954-2016 at the Castell de Calonge in Girona, Spain.
His works have been presented by over 40 museums (exhibitions and permanent collections) and over 95 galleries throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Àlvar Suñol continues to reside in and create from his studio north of Barcelona.
“Throughout his career Alvar Suñol has constructed in his art a world that transcends place and time”.
– Michelle Hudson Walton, from: Awaken the Past: Modernized History in the Religious Art of Alvar Suñol, 2017
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