Francisco Llorens

FRANCISCO LLORENS DÍAZ (A Coruña, 1874 - Madrid, 1948).
"Sunset in the village", 1906.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 100 x 150 cm; 105 x 155 cm (frame).
In this piece we can observe a rural landscape with a post-impressionist aesthetics due to the loose brushstrokes and the importance of the light that faithfully reflects the time of the day. The author proposes a frontal view in which he places an empty space in the foreground, to dispose in the distance half animals and the figure of a woman. She is seated alone next to the portico of the church.
Trained in Madrid, Francisco Llorens was awarded an honourable mention at the National Exhibition of 1895, and in 1903 he obtained a grant to further his studies in Rome. He also visited the Netherlands and continued to take part in the National Exhibitions, being awarded a third medal in 1907. Subsequently he was also awarded a second medal (1908) and a first medal (1922), titles which were added to others he won at the Barcelona International (1907), the Buenos Aires International (1910) and the Panama Universal (1916). He was also Grand Cross of the Crown of Belgium and an honorary member of the Salón de Otoño, as well as a full member of the Royal Academy of San Fernando from 1943. After the interruption of his activity due to the Civil War, he was appointed honorary member of the Galician Royal Academy at the end of the war, and became a professor of landscape painting at the San Fernando School. He is currently represented in the Prado Museum, the Nova Caixa Galicia Collection, the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, all the museums in Galicia and in numerous provincial museums in Spain and America.