Manuel Ricart Serra (1913-2014) - Mujer con traje de fiesta

\Artist: Manuel Ricart Serra (1913-2014)
Technique: Oil on canvas\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 81_2_65_cm
Signed in the lower right corner. On the back signed and titled again. Measurements of the painting 81 X 65 Cm. His artistic training began at the age of 12, in night classes at the Escuela de la Lonja (known as la Llotja) , with Félix Mestres, Antoni Vila Arrufat and Ramón Calsina as teachers. [1] At the age of 18 he struck up a friendship. with the painter Josep M. Mallol Suazo. From that time dates his collaboration with the magazine L'Esquella de la Torratxa, for which he made humorous drawings. He combined this activity with graphics and decoration work. In 1936 he finished his studies at the Llotja and exhibited his first two works at the Barcelona Salon, receiving good reviews. The Spanish Civil War was a break in his promising career, as he was mobilized and assigned first to Gerona and then to Guadalajara. After the war, he returned to Barcelona in 1939, and the situation was dire, as his brother Juan and his mother had died in a bombing raid on Barcelona, and both the house and the studio had been razed to the ground. Despite this, he soon received a commission and, in 1941, he had his first individual exhibition at the Syra gallery in Barcelona, which was followed by other exhibitions in Madrid, Lisbon and Porto. From 1949 to 1964 he reduced his artistic activity for personal and professional reasons, but when he returned he did so with the maturity and solidity of an artist. From 1971 he dedicated himself entirely to painting until the mid-1980s. Manuel Ricart Serra is represented at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, and in numerous private collections in Europe and America.