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

REDONDELA, Agustín (Madrid, 1922). "Hermitage". Watercolor. Signed and titled in the lower area. A largely self-taught painter, Agustín González Alonso trained alongside his father, the painter and set designer José González “Redondela.” After the Spanish Civil War, he attended classes at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid with the landscape painter José Ordoñez, and in 1945 he submitted his first painting to the National Fine Arts Exhibition, signed with the pseudonym Redondela. That same year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Estilo Gallery in Madrid. It was during this period that he came into contact with the Madrid School, and in 1947 he was selected to exhibit in the Salon of Eleven at the Breve e Crítica de Arte (Brief and Critical Academy of Art) of Eugenio d'Ors. In the 1950s, Redondela received a grant from the Catherwood Foundation in Philadelphia (1954), the National Painting Prize (1953), and a first-place 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 the City of Madrid dedicated a major retrospective exhibition to him. His work is currently represented in the Museum of Fine Arts of A Coruña, the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Landscape in Priego de Córdoba, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza, the museums of Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Havana, and the Oswaldo Guayasamín House-Museum in Quito, among other public and private collections.

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