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Antoni Clavé, Catalan painter, sculptor and graphic artist, was born in Barcelona in 1913, and is considered one of the most relevant figures of Contemporary art.
He initiated his pictorial formation in 1926, assisting in the courses of Ángel Ferrán in the Superior School of Fine Trough and in the courses of painting by José Mongrell. He frequented also, in this epoch, the workshops of both artists.
From the fifties, his schemes became more simplified at the same time hardened, reducing the chromatic in search of an asceticism lacking the superfluous.
After the Civil war, during which he left to Paris, he returned to Barcelona, where was recognised from his exhibition in Sala Gaspar of Barcelona (1956), when he was already enjoying international prestige.
In 1996, his last retrospective exhibition was achieved "
Antoni Clavé in
La Pedrera", in Barcelona.
In the last years his work was totally abstract, following a line of purification of formal schemes.
As well as in the engraving, he triumphed in painting, illustration, sculpture and also scenography.
He passed away in 2005, in Saint Tropez (France).
Where to find his works:
Galería Gothsland