Josep Guinovart, Abstract Composition, 1963, Gesso

Important painting by the great Spanish artist Josep Guinovart.

Signed and registered on the back
It bears exposure labels at the Galleria number of Flame Vigo, one of the most important contemporary art galleries of the sixties.
This painting is a work of art of rare beauty and intensity.

Already in the early sixties, as our work shows, Guinovart had taken the path of informal and abstract, so fashionable in recent years.
It is a masterpiece of rare evocative sense, with its basic materials such as plaster and wood, typical of poor art.

Certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi expert of the Court and of the C.C.I.A.A. from Rome.

This article comes from an important private collection and is therefore unpublished on the market

Josep Guinovart I Bertran (March 20, 1927 in Barcelona - 12 December 2007 in Barcelona) was a Spanish painter famous especially for his informal and abstract works.
In 1941 he began working as a decorator.
Three years later she begins her studies at the Escuela de Artes Y Oficios de la Llotja (Llotja's art school), where she remained until 1946.

He exhibited for the first time in 1948 at the Galerías Syla in Barcelona.
In 1951 he made his first engravings entitled "Tribute to Federico García Lorca".
Two years later, he received a scholarship from the French Institute to study in Paris for nine months.
Here he discovers the cubist works of Matisse and Picasso and travels to Belgium, Holland and Germany.

On his return to Barcelona, ​​after a period of work as an illustrator and scenographer, around 1957 he began to orient himself towards abstract art.
His work is highly unconventional and usually on a large scale, using a wide range of materials, three -dimensional objects and organic substances such as egg shell, land and straw.
In 1962 he illustrated a book of poems entitled Posies by Joan Salvat-Papasseit for the publisher Ariel. In the seventies and eighties he obtained numerous awards for his work, including the Spanish National Prize for the Plastics in 1982.

In 1994 a museum foundation dedicated to his art in Agramunt, the hometown of the mother to whom he has always heard a particular attachment was inaugurated.

In 2006 he designed the Mas Blanch I Jové Vinicola company in La Pobla de Cérvoles (Lleida) and created the artists' vineyard, a project destined to mix sculptures and other works of art by different artists in the middle of a vineyard.
The artists' vineyard was inaugurated after his death, in 2010, with the inauguration of his sculpture the country organ: a musical instrument, 6 meters high, which allows the wind to make the vines sing.
In this cellar, the 10.5 meter work in Veritas wine and other works by artists is also exhibited.

He died on December 12, 2007 at the age of 80.