Josep Maria Prim (1907-1973) - Bañistas desnudas
\Artist: Josep Maria Prim (1907-1973)
Technique: Oil on canvas\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 50_100_1_cm
Restored. Dimensions of the oil painting: 50 x 100 cm Unframed Josep Maria Prim i Guytó was born in Barcelona in 1907 and died in the same city in 1973. He was a Catalan painter and engraver. A vocational draughtsman, in 1924 he published illustrations at Girona’s El Autonomista and the following year he illustrated with linoleum the book L’estàtua de la dansarina by J. Rodríguez Grahit. He studied engraving and painting in Barcelona, at the Ateneu Polytechnicum led by Francesc d’A. Galí, in the FAD and in the Cercle Artístic of Sant Lluc. As a member of the Group Merli he had an exhibition in 1929 at the Galerías Layetanas in Barcelona and in the 1930s he participated in the Salones de Primavera. Since then, he made several individual exhibitions in Barcelona, and in 1932 he showed his works in a collective exhibition in the United States. In 1942 he obtained the third class diploma at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Barcelona, for the work ‘Flores’. Related to the group Destino, he contributed to this magazine immediately from the post-war period, he illustrated Nestor Lujan’s and Xavier Montsalvatge Álbum Habaneras and collaborated with Josep Janés in the bibliographic collection ‘La Rosa Vera’, among other editorial collections. He consolidated his reputation as a painter and he characterized himself by capturing a fleeting and light vision of landscape, and even more often, of maritime landscapes. Some art critics have related his style with Raoul Dufy’s fauvism. He also worked as a muralist.
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\Artist: Josep Maria Prim (1907-1973)
Technique: Oil on canvas\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 50_100_1_cm
Restored. Dimensions of the oil painting: 50 x 100 cm Unframed Josep Maria Prim i Guytó was born in Barcelona in 1907 and died in the same city in 1973. He was a Catalan painter and engraver. A vocational draughtsman, in 1924 he published illustrations at Girona’s El Autonomista and the following year he illustrated with linoleum the book L’estàtua de la dansarina by J. Rodríguez Grahit. He studied engraving and painting in Barcelona, at the Ateneu Polytechnicum led by Francesc d’A. Galí, in the FAD and in the Cercle Artístic of Sant Lluc. As a member of the Group Merli he had an exhibition in 1929 at the Galerías Layetanas in Barcelona and in the 1930s he participated in the Salones de Primavera. Since then, he made several individual exhibitions in Barcelona, and in 1932 he showed his works in a collective exhibition in the United States. In 1942 he obtained the third class diploma at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Barcelona, for the work ‘Flores’. Related to the group Destino, he contributed to this magazine immediately from the post-war period, he illustrated Nestor Lujan’s and Xavier Montsalvatge Álbum Habaneras and collaborated with Josep Janés in the bibliographic collection ‘La Rosa Vera’, among other editorial collections. He consolidated his reputation as a painter and he characterized himself by capturing a fleeting and light vision of landscape, and even more often, of maritime landscapes. Some art critics have related his style with Raoul Dufy’s fauvism. He also worked as a muralist.
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