Auction 32
By Art La Rosa - Casa d'Aste
Mar 5, 2022
Viale Africa, 12 - 95129 Catania, Italy

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LOT 2:

José Benlliure y Gil (Valencia, 1855 - Valencia, 1937)
Scene of popular characters in an interior

Sold for: €850
Start price:
750
Buyer's Premium: 25% More details
tags:

Scene of popular characters in an interior
Technique:
Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions:
45x68 cm, in a carved gilded wood frame 70x94 cm

José Benlliure y Gil, painter from the nineteenth century from Valencia, belonged to a family of artists: both his father Juan Antonio and his son, José Benlliure Ortiz were painters. After his studies at the "San Carlos" Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia, he trained in the studio of the painter Francisco Domingo Marqués. He presented his works at the Madrid and Paris Salons with Spanish subjects and paintings of a religious nature, in which he expressed a deep attachment to Christianity and symbolism. & Nbsp; He moved to Rome where he became a point of reference for the colony of Spanish artists. From 1903 to 1913 he became a professor at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. The work is signed lower right.