Francesc Gimeno Arasa Art

"The Escape" an oil on panel of a lively escape on horses by a group of Bedouin somewhere in North Africa or The Arabian Peninsula. The painting is signed and dated 1906 in the lower left and it is presented in a magnificent frame. Francesc Gimeno i Arasa (4 February 1858, Tortosa – 22 November 1927, Barcelona) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist; best known for his landscapes, city scenes and self-portraits. After completing his primary education, in 1880, he moved to Barcelona, where he worked as a decorative painter in the studios of Manuel Marqués (born c. 1840). At the same time, he and a few friends operated a small art academy. With the assistance of a lithographer named Francisco Tió, he was able to move to Madrid in 1884, to study at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando with the landscape painter, Carlos de Haes, and make copies of Velázquez at the Museo del Prado. In 1887, he moved to Torroella de Montgrí and, two years later, settled on the Costa Brava, where he painted maritime...