MANUEL ÃNGELES ORTIZ (Jaén, 1895 - Paris, 1984).
"Walk under the trees".
Cut-out paper.
Work reproduced in "Manuel Ãngeles Ortiz. Homage Exhibition. Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, 1980. Fig 132.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid.
Measurements: 61 x 47 cm; 90 x 74 cm (frame).
A representative of the Spanish School of Paris, Manuel Ãngeles Ortiz began his training in Granada, in the studio of José Larrocha. He later completed his studies at the Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales in the city and then moved to Madrid, where he continued his training in the studio of Cecilio Plá. In 1915 he made his debut in a group exhibition, receiving very good reviews in the local press. At the same time, he began to produce drawings for various publications. In the early 1920s, following the death of his wife, the painter moved to Paris. There he painted frenetically, with Picasso as his main supporter and first enthusiast. His painting abandoned cubic forms to focus on fully dreamlike images, which he presented in Paris in his first one-man show, held at the Quatre Chemins gallery in 1926. In 1932 he returned to Spain, but his anti-fascist stance led him to take refuge in France once again at the end of the Civil War. After a brief stay in Paris he went to Buenos Aires, where he became fully integrated into the artistic scene and lived until 1948, when he returned to Paris for good. He is currently represented in the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid, the ARTIUM in Vitoria, the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Grenoble, the Federico García Lorca, Mapfre and Telefónica Foundations and the Bargera gallery in Cologne, among other public and private collections.