ANTONIO SAURA (Huesca, 1930 - Cuenca, 1998).
ANTONIO SAURA (Huesca, 1930 - Cuenca, 1998).
"Open Series, plate 3".1989.
Lithography and color zincography, copy 26/99.
Signed and justified by hand.
Work published in "Antonio Saura, L'Oeuvre Imprimé Catalogue Raisonné", Patrick Cramer. Geneve 2000, p.621
Measurements: 74 x 103 cm.; 126 x 96 cm.
Self-taught, Antonio Saura is presented in Madrid in 1952, and that same year he travels for the first time to Paris, where he will participate in the activities of the surrealist group. He organized his first exhibition in the French capital in 1957, at the Stadler gallery, the same year he founded the El Paso group. In 1960 he receives the Guggenheim Award in New York, and in 1963 his first retrospectives are dedicated to him, at the Stedelijk Museum in Eindhoven, the Rotterdamsche Kunstring and in the museums of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro (works on paper). In 1966 he participates in the Biennial of Engraving "Bianco e Nero" of Lugano, obtaining the Grand Prize. The following year he settled in Paris, and in 1968 he abandoned oil painting to devote himself exclusively to graphic work. In 1979 he was awarded a prize at the First Biennial of engraving in Heidelberg, in 1981 he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, and the following year he was awarded the Gold Medal of Fine Arts. He is represented at the Neue Nationalgalierie in Berlin, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Gallery in London.
