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Jorge CastilloSurrealist Composition - Original China Ink Drawing by Jorge Castillo - 1960 ca.1960 ca.
1960 ca.
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Surrealist Composition is a fascinating drawing in China ink made by the Spanish Surrealist artist Jorge Castillo, dated around 1960. The artwork was drawn on a paper that presents, on the back, some projects. The paper is glued on the four corners on a cardboard measuring 30 x 40 cm. On the higher right of the drawing, there is the inscription in black pen and capital letters, probably added at a later time, “Castillo/1960”. On the central left of the drawing, there is a circular stamp of the Pecci-Blunt collection. The same stamp, of bigger dimensions, is printed also on the back of the paper. The state of preservation is excellent.
The drawing presents a Surreal subject, typical of Castillo’s early artistic style. Castillo is a painter, graphic artist, and sculptor who, since 1955, has produced several Surreal drawings and gouaches exhibited for the first time at the Galeria Altamira in Madrid in 1959. The artist then reached international fame exhibiting in France, Italy, Germany, and the USA.
This is a very interesting artwork, one of a kind, influenced conceptually by Spanish Surrealist painting though showing the artist’s fully personal re-elaboration of it.
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- Creator:Jorge Castillo (1933 - 1985, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1960 ca.
- Dimensions:Height: 10.63 in (27 cm)Width: 13.19 in (33.5 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
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Jorge Castillo
Jorge Castillo, painter and sculptor, was born on June 16, 1933, in Pontevedra. Only one year after his birth his family emigrated to Argentina for political reasons. Castillo spent his childhood and youth in Buenos Aires. He tried to migrate to Paris, but due to a lack of economic resources, he was established in Spain. He soon came into contact with the art critic José María Moreno Galván, who admired his work and introduced him to the Madrid artistic circles. In 1958, he started selling his drawings at the gallery in Biosca and the painter Antonio Saura bought several of them. The following year, he exhibited his works on paper and watercolors at the Altamira Fine Art gallery in Madrid. In 1960, he was selected for the São Paulo Art Biennial in Brazil. Thereafter, he exhibited his work internationally in galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Lisbon, Turin, Hanover, Dusseldorf and Geneva. He has participated in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1976 and 1970, performed a solo exhibition at the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the first major exhibition in a museum. In 1964, Castillo won the International Drawing Prize in Darmstadt, Germany and 1975, Darmstadt Prize for Painting. Works of Jorge Castillo are at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, the Museu Fundación Juan March, the National Galleries in Edinburgh and Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Kunsthalle Bremen, the Albertina Museum Vienna, the National Library of Spain and the Guggenheim in New York. Since the early 1980s, Castillo has lived in New York, where he was commissioned to create public sculptures in La Coruña, Messina and Barcelona.
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