WATER PAINTING.\'LANDSCAPE WITH SHRINE\'. AGUSTÍN REDONDELA

REDONDELA, Agustín (Madrid, 1922). "Hermitage". Watercolor. Signed and titled in the lower area. A mainly self-taught painter, Agustín González Alonso trained alongside his father, the painter and set designer José González “Redondela”. After the civil war he attended classes at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts with the landscape painter José Ordoñez, and in 1945 he sent a painting for the first time to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, signed with the pseudonym Redondela. That same year he will hold his first personal exhibition, at the Estilo gallery in Madrid. It was at this time that he came into contact with the Madrid School, and in 1947 he was selected to exhibit in the Salón de los Once of the Academia Breve e Crítica de Arte de Eugenio d'Ors. Already in the fifties Redondela obtained a scholarship from the Catherword Foundation of Philadelphia (1954), the National Painting Prize (1953) and first medal at the National Exhibition (1957). In 1996 the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando awarded him the José González de la Peña prize, and two years later the Cultural Center of Villa de Madrid dedicated an important Anthological exhibition to him. It is currently represented in the Museum of Fine Arts of La Coruña, the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Landscape of Priego de Córdoba, the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, the Camón Aznar of Zaragoza, those of Buenos Aires, Caracas and Havana and the House-Museum by Oswaldo Guayasamín in Quito, among other public and private collections.

· Size: 16 x 23 cm; 44 x 52 cm con marco