Items Similar to Abstract Latin American Art Spanish Catalan Lithograph Josep Guinovart New York
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 12
Josep Guinovart BertránAbstract Latin American Art Spanish Catalan Lithograph Josep Guinovart New York 1984
1984
About the Item
Guinovart, Josep (Spanish/Catalan, 1927-2007), Untitled Abstract, 1984, lithograph on paper, hand signed, dated and marked E.A. (artist's proof) in pencil at bottom, full sheet 26.75 x 22 inches, unframed.
Josep Guinovart (1927 –2007) was a Spanish Catalan painter most famous for his informalist or abstract expressionist work.
In 1941, he began to work as a decorator. Three years later, he started his studies at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de la Llotja (Art School of La Llotja) where he stayed until 1946.
He first exhibited his work in 1948 in Galerías Syla in Barcelona. In 1951, he produced his first engravings entitled 'Homage to Federico García Lorca'. Two years later, he was awarded a grant from the French Institute to study in Paris for nine months. Here he discovered the cubist works of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and travelled to Belgium, Holland and Germany.
On his return to Barcelona and after a period working as an illustrator and set designer, around 1957 he began moving 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 eggshell, earth and straw.
In 1962, he illustrated a book of poetry entitled Posies by Joan Salvat-Papasseit for the Ariel Editorial. He won many accolades for his work throughout the 1970s and 80s, including Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts in 1982. In 1994, a museum foundation dedicated to his art was inaugurated in Agramunt, his mother's birthplace to which he always felt a special attachment.
In 2006 he designed the winery Mas Blanch i Jové in La Pobla de Cérvoles (Lleida) and created The Artists' Vineyard, a project intended to mix sculptures and other art works from different artists in the middle of a vineyard. The Artists' Vineyard was inaugurated after his death in 2010 with the unveiling of his sculpture The Countryside Organ: a music instrument, 6 meters height, for the wind to sing the vines. This winery also displays the 10.5 meters work In Vino Veritas and other artists' works. He is buried in the Sant Gervasi Cemetery, Barcelona.
He was represented by the prestigious Joan Prats Gallery ( they showed Salvador Dali, Alexander Calder, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Josep Vicenç Foix and Joan Brossa) and he was included in the exhibition Five Catalan Artists in Homage to Joan Prats. Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, Josep Guinovart, Joan Hernandez Pijuan, Albert Rafols Casamada.
Museums and public collections with his artwork
Espai Guinovart, Agramunt, Catalonia - museum dedicated entirely to his artwork.
MACBA (Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum), Barcelona.
CaixaForum, Colección Fundación "La Caixa", Barcelona.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
The Guggenheim, New York City.
Casa de las Américas, La Habana.
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York City.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (México DF).
Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Museo de Navarra, Tafalla.
Museo Provincial de Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Basque Country.
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile.
Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt.
Museu d'Art Modern, Barcelona.
Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia.
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, the Basque Country.
Museo de Lissone, Milano.
Museu de Pintura de Sant Pol de Mar, Catalonia.
Museo de Maracay, Venezuela.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela.
Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico.
Museo de San Telmo, Donostia/San Sebastián.
Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany.
Palacio de Justicia de Vitoria-Gasteiz, Áraba.
Colección Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid.
Fundación Juan March, Palma (Mallorca).
Generalitat de Catalunya Collection, Barcelona.
The Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York.
Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada Collection, Saragossa.
Diari Avui (newspaper) collection, Barcelona.
Eina Art & Design School Collection, Barcelona.
Ajuntament de Barcelona / Barcelona City Council Collection.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Cáceres.
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Vilafamés, Castelló de la Plana.
Museu Eusebio Sempere, Alacant.
- Creator:Josep Guinovart Bertrán (1927 - 2007, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1984
- Dimensions:Height: 26.75 in (67.95 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 1.75 in (4.45 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:good. minor wear commensurate with age. please see photos.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3829335292
Josep Guinovart Bertrán
Josep Guinovart (Barcelona, 1927 - 2007) began working as a painter of murals, posters, and theater decoration and also as the illustrator of the Dau al Set group's magazine. In 1955, after completing his studies in Paris, thanks to a scholarship given to him by the French Institute, Guinovart founded the group Tahull, along with Antoni Tàpies, Jaume Muxart, Modest Cuixart and Joan Josep Tharrats. He begins a figurative stage that evolves to a social theme and then to abstraction and informalism. In 1957 Guinovart began to experiment in a style close to assemblage and collage by incorporating into his works objects as boxes, cans, burnt wood or trashed elements. In the 60's he leaves subjective poetry of informalism and his works are characterized by the expressive content that he tries to convey by signs and colorful strokes. From 1970 incorporates materials like mud, straw or cement and also makes some works of social and political content. Examples of works from these years are "Earth and Stubble" (1976) or "Stone & Clay" (1977). In 1976 he began his work as an engraver. In 1982 he received the National Prize of Fine Arts granted by the Spanish government and in 1990 the National d'Arts Plastiques Prize awarded by the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia. His art works are shown in major museums including Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, New York's Guggenheim Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao and the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island in New York.
About the Seller
4.9
Platinum Seller
These expertly vetted sellers are 1stDibs' most experienced sellers and are rated highest by our customers.
Established in 1995
1stDibs seller since 2014
1,566 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Surfside, FL
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 3 days of delivery.
More From This SellerView All
- Large 1960's California Pop Art Abstract Expressionist LA Lithograph John AltoonLocated in Surfside, FLJohn Altoon (1925-1969) UNTITLED, 1966, color lithograph, hand signed in pencil and inscribed trail proof II, sheet 29 ¾ x 41 ¼, printed by Gemini G.E.L.,...Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- 1960's California Pop Art Abstract Expressionist LA Lithograph "About Women"Located in Surfside, FLJohn Altoon (American, 1925-1969) From the 'About Women' Series. Color lithograph 1965/66, Hand signed and editioned in pencil with the chop mark of Gemi...Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Abstract Color Field Gradient Lithograph Eric Orr Poligrafia Barcelona LA ArtistBy Eric OrrLocated in Surfside, FLEric Orr, (American 1939-1998) In Barcelona, 1989, Color lithograph, hand signed in pencil and numbered from edition of 75 sheet 30 x 22", Published by Poligrafia Eric Orr (1939–1998) is an artist who lived and worked in Venice, California from 1965–1998. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1965, Orr was a civil rights worker in Mississippi. A key figure of the Light and Space movement, Orr developed alongside Southern California conceptual art and created perceptual-based installations commonly associated with Light and Space art. Orr's work spanned a variety of artistic practices (including installation art, sculpture, painting, and performance art that challenged the definition of art making. Orr's work incorporated a broad range of cultural references, including space icons found in ancient religions and cultures, Egyptian symbolism, and Buddhist spiritualism. Orr participated in a number of international exhibitions during his life, including documenta VII (1982), the Sydney Biennale (1986), and the Venice Biennale (1986). His work can be found in many public and private collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Orr died in Venice, California, in 1998." His archives are available at The Getty Research Institute. In both his installations, sculpture and paintings, Eric Orr worked with elemental qualities of natural materials, e.g. stone, metal, water, and fire, gold leaf, lead, blood, human skull, and AM/FM radio parts. Orr worked with the "phenomenological exploration of perception." His body of work also includes monochromatic paintings, and large scale fountains (with water & fire). His work was influenced by a religio-philosophical conceptualization of space icons found in ancient religions and cultures, such as Egyptian symbolism and Buddhist Spiritualism. Orr is associated with Light and Space, a group of mostly West Coast artists whose work is primarily concerned with perceptual experience stemming from the viewer's interaction with their work. "The space itself changes you, instead of an object." This group also includes, among others, artists James Turrell, Dewain Valentine...Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Jean Marie Haessle Abstract Geometric Op Art Silkscreen Lithograph PrintBy Jean-Marie HaessleLocated in Surfside, FLJean Marie Haessle, French-American (1939-) Serigraph silkscreen Hand signed in pencil and numbered Elana's Dream (red background) 1980 Jean Marie Haessle was born in 1939 in Alsa...Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen
- California Abstract Expressionist Linocut Lithograph Sepia Print Edition of 6By Hans BurkhardtLocated in Surfside, FLUntitled, 1983, lithograph printed in sepia ink, Hand signed and dated lower right, numbered in pencil with the artist's chop mark lower left, inscribed by artist. From a series of experimental abstract linocuts done in 1983. These are very small editions and were gifted to a friend of the artist. They are done on deckle edged French Arches Art paper. Hans Gustav Burkhardt (1904 – 1994) was a Swiss-American abstract expressionist artist. Hans Burkhardt was born in the industrial quarter of Basel, Switzerland. Captivated by Germanic art, he began dabbling in art in his spare time while learning how to decorate furniture in antique styles. He became foreman of the furniture company's decorating department. From 1925 to 1928 he attended the Cooper Union School of the Arts, where he befriended mentor Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning—sharing Gorky's studio from 1928 to 1937. Burkhardt's paintings of the 1930s are part of the genesis of American abstract expressionism. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles and represented the most significant bridge between New York and Los Angeles. His experimental investigative approach paralleled, and in many instances anticipated, the development of modern and contemporary art in New York and Europe including the work of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman. Burkhardt held his first solo exhibition in 1939 at Stendahl Gallery in Los Angeles, arranged by Lorser Feitelson, and, in response to the Spanish Civil War, he painted his first anti-war works. From the late 1930s he began to produce apocalyptic anti-war compositions, a theme which became particularly pronounced in an abstract expressionist style after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War. In the years following an acclaimed (1945) solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum, Burkhardt continued in his art to respond to WWII, in the aftermath of Gorky's suicide in 1948, Burkhardt delved into his grief and celebration of Gorky's life creating several versions of “Burial of Gorky” and a series entitled “Journey into the Unknown.” Burkhardt first visited Mexico in 1950, and spent the next decade living half of the year in and around Guadalajara. Strongly influenced by Mexican attitudes towards the dead, and by the country's colors, sensuality, and spiritual qualities, Burkhardt “painted the soul of Mexico” with Mexican themes and colors—especially those of burials and ceremonies surrounding death—permeating his abstract work. His Mexican work flirted with Surrealism although he was never really considered a Surrealist artist. Art critics of the time considered him a "great Mexican master” alongside Orozco, Diego Rivera, and Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo admired his work. Overall, in the 1950s Burkhardt held 23 solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and Mexico, and participated in group shows at over thirty museums worldwide. He was friends with June Wayne from Tamarind Press. In the 1960s he produced paintings in protest against the Vietnam War, some of which incorporated the human skulls he had collected from Mexican graveyards. As art historian Donald Kuspit stated, Burkhardt was “a master—indeed the inventor—of the abstract memento mori.” In 1964, for the first time in forty years, Burkhardt returned to Basel, and began making annual summer visits where he became a friend of Mark Tobey—printing linocuts for the artist and collecting his work. In the 1970s Burkhardt continued his anti-war paintings—incorporating protruding wooden spikes into the canvas—while simultaneously painting abstractions of merging lovers and cityscapes during his summer visits to Basel. His “Small Print” (protesting smoking), “Graffiti,” and “Northridge” series demonstrate the evolution of his symbolism, and his “Desert Storms” series, in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, was discussed by critic Peter Selz at a presentation at the International Congress of Art Critics Conference. In the last decades of his life, Burkhardt's work had moved from images of imbalance to a study of human tragedy—which he embraced in an attempt to discover beauty and facilitate understanding. Critic Peter Frank called Burkhardt “…one of America’s most vital abstract expressionist painters, someone who took the seed of the movement and cultivated it a rather different way in very different soil.” Burkhardt taught at numerous colleges and universities and retired as a professor emeritus from California State University, Northridge. In 1992 Burkhardt was honored as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters’ Jimmy Ernst (son of Max Ernst) Award. Also in 1992, he established the Hans G. and Thordis W. Burkhardt Foundation. In 1993, the last year of his career, his final series “Black Rain” channeled pain and hardship, but provided poignant, symbolic beacons of hope and wishes for a better future for humanity. His unique role as an important American painter is affirmed by the constant interest and continuing reassessment afforded his work. Select Solo exhibitions 1939: Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, March 27 – April 17 1945: Hans Burkhardt, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1951: Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: Exhibición de Pinturas Modernas; Comara Gallery, Los Angeles 1953: Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1957: Pasadena Art Museum, California: Ten Year Retrospective, June 14 – July 14; 1968: San Diego Museum of Art: Vietnam Paintings...Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Linocut
- Russian French Avant Garde Lithograph Rhythm in Colour Vibrant Abstract PrintBy Léopold SurvageLocated in Surfside, FLLéopold Survage (French/Russian, 1879-1968), "Rythmes Colorés", 1967-1968 Lithograph on Vélin d'Arches paper, Printed by Mourlot, Paris Hand signed in pencil and numbered "AN 16/75"...Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
You May Also Like
- Cosmic Energy Suite 3, Abstract Lithograph by Leonardo NiermanBy Leonardo NiermanLocated in Long Island City, NYEnergía Cosmica 3 (Cosmic Energy 3) Leonardo Nierman Mexican (1932) Portfolio: Cosmic Energy Suite Date: 1980 Lithograph with embossing, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 31/2...Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Composition - Lithograph by U. Mastroianni - 1980sBy Umberto MastroianniLocated in Roma, ITComposition is a contemporary artwork realized by Umberto Mastroianni. Mixed colored litograph. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower left in pencil. Numbered on the lower right in...Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Let's Make the Whole Demilitarized Zone into a Grand Park for All Korean PeopleLocated in Long Island City, NYLet’s Make the Whole Dimilitarized Zone into a Grand Park for All Korean People Lee Bann Korean Date: 1988 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 87/300 Size: 35 in. x ...Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Frozen silenceBy Alexandru TrifuLocated in Geneva, CHWork on paper White wooden frame with glass pane 87 x 66,5 x 3 cmCategory
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Piero Dorazio Lithograph Abstract Geometric Quadrilateral PolygonBy Piero DorazioLocated in Detroit, MIThe work is a Lithograph, not numbered, but signed and dated by the artist, Piero Dorazio. The print has an intense color field with a strong linear element being composed of quadril...Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Eau Vive et Pierres - Lithograph by Jean Dubuffet - 1950sBy Jean DubuffetLocated in Roma, ITEau Vive et Pierres is an original B/W lithograph from the album "Theatre du Sol" by the French founder of Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet Very good condition. The artwork represents an Ab...Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
American Designer Paris
American Vintage Belgium
Large Miro Lithograph
Casa De Barcelona
Henri Matisse Lithograph Signed Framed
Large Dali Print
Miro Book Lithograph
Henri Matisse Hand Signed Lithograph
Miro Book Print Lithograph
Vineyard Vines
Picasso Music Lithograph
Paper Straws Vintage
Framed Vintage Sheet Music
Dali Homage
Wind Instruments
Vintage Mas
80s Max
X Mas