OIL ON CANVAS. \'GIPSY WOMAN\' BY JULIO MOISES

Julio Moisés Fernández de Villasante spent his childhood and adolescence in Galicia and Cádiz, a city in whose School of Fine Arts he began his painting studies. There he won several awards and received commissions such as decorating his Grand Theatre. In 1912 he moved to Barcelona and in his first participation in a National Exhibition of Fine Arts he obtained a third medal. He repeated with a second and a first award in the 1915 and 1920 editions. He was also awarded at the International Expositions of San Francisco (1915) and Panama (1916). His work would continue to be exhibited throughout his life, such as the various individual exhibitions that in the 1930s took him to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Established in Madrid since 1920, he taught for several years after founding a Free Academy of Art in 1923. Students like Salvador Dalí passed by there, while he was requested by the Royal Family to portray HM King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia. The theme of his work was, above all, gender painting and female portraiture, a mixture of customs and folklore in equal parts. This was the "Woman with a carafe in her hand" that she signed in 1945 to illustrate the UEE calendar and with which, following the iconographic tradition of the collection, she contributed her own vision of the ideal canons of feminine beauty. His talent was recognized with his appointment as director of the School of Fine Arts in 1946 and as an academic at the San Fernando School in Madrid in 1947.

· Size: Lienzo 85x100 cms.