Augustin Úbeda Romero-Moreno (Spain) 1925 – 2007
Fantasy, lithograph, signed/numbered 159/200, full margins (19″ x 26″), unframed
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Excellent condition. Never framed; in portfolio since 2005.
Established Spanish painter and graphic artist Agustin Ubeda worked in a style full of lyricism, sensuality and irony, in which one can see the influence of Goya, of whom he was a self-proclaimed admirer.
Convinced that painting is both aesthetic and intellectual, Ubeda created artwork in a style that was unquestionably his, created with enjoyment and passion, at the edge of the trends in contemporary Spanish art, within which he stands out.
Ubeda was trained at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Spain, and was granted a scholarship from the French Institute in Madrid that he used to travel to Paris, where he was profoundly influenced by Marc Chagall.
He returned to Spain and worked as a professor at his former school, the Escuela de San Fernando, where, until 1980, he was a professor in the Fine Arts department, becoming chair in 1987.
Ubeda’s work can be found in the Museums and Collections of:
Museo de la Ville de Geneva, Switzerland
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Obituary from El Pais.com:
The painter and university professor Agustin Úbeda Manchego-Levers Moreno-Romero died Tuesday November 27, 2007 in Madrid, Spain at age 82.
Agustin Úbeda was a surrealist dream heavily loaded, which can be seen within the so-called Spanish school of Paris, one that spanned the second and third generations after the exile after the Civil War.
Great knowledge of art history and a man of broad culture, Úbeda created a personal symbology was an expression of lyricism, irony and tears, always with a mysterious aura.
Born in Herencia (Ciudad Real) in 1925, trained at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where he studied Diaz Vázquez, Eugenio Hermoso and Joaquin Valverde, and graduated from the School of Paris with a scholarship from the French Institute and Juan March Foundation. During his years living in Paris, France he participated in major exhibitions that were held in Spain.
Professor Emeritus at the University Complutense of Madrid and member of the Royal Academy of Doctors, throughout his long artistic career he received awards including the Young French Painting in 1957, or the Grand Prize for Painting of the Circle of Fine Arts 1980. Some of his works were part of the exhibition of figurative expressionism Ten teachers, held in Madrid gallery Orfila in 1992, and in 1998 the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid exhibited a retrospective covering its creation between 1944 and 1998.
On March 30, 1999 he suffered a heart attack at his home. That same day, an exhibition of his paintings was opened at the Museum of Santa Cruz de Toledo. His works are in museums in Madrid Contemporary Art, San Diego (California), the City of Paris, of the City of Geneva, Oklahoma Home Centre and Angels, among other museums.
– Credit: Papillon Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Úbeda Romero-Moreno, Agustín. Herencia (Ciudad Real), 1.XII.1925 – Madrid, 27.XI.2007. Painter. At the beginning of the 1940s he moved to Madrid, where his father had set up a small hotel very close to Atocha station. It is not known whether it helped his vocation that the sculptor from La Mancha Joaquín García Donaire gave him his first box of paints. In 1943 he began his studies at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Vázquez Díaz, Eugenio Hermoso and Joaquín Valverde; he was influenced in his formative years by the chromatic daring of Benjamín Palencia. In 1953 he travelled to Paris on a scholarship from the French Institute and three years later he signed a contract with the art dealer David Drouant, so he remained in the French capital until 1974. Upon his return, he worked as a professor at the Madrid Faculty of Fine Arts, gaining a position as a professor in 1987, the same year he won the BMW Prize. During his time in Paris his painting became imbued with a lyrical and expressionist baroque style that links him to Picasso and Chagall, although as time went by his work took on a more personal tone, not unrelated to his admiration for Goya, who inspired him with a personal world of sensual, bare-breasted women who placed on the support, in addition to their mischievous anatomy, a series of arrows that seemed to provoke a journey through the most hidden recesses of joy, like suggestive itineraries in which there was a promise of erotic tremors. Although the brazen female figure is the protagonist of his best compositions, he has also dedicated his univocal and personal interpretation, which suggests the unstable nature of the same, to dreamlike landscapes and emblematic buildings of some cities always defined poetically and plastically with a certain tone of naivety. His work appears in the most famous museums of America and Europe. Works by ~: Advierte esperanza, 1987; Memoria de Santiago de Compostela ayer, 1996; Retratos apócrifo de la princesa de Éboli, 1997. Bibl.: Faraldo, Espectáculo de la pintura española, Madrid, La Cigüeña, 1953; J. Chabannon and L. Vilmorín, “Úbeda”, in Les Cahiers de la Peinture, nº 8, Paris, Presse Artistique, 1960; J. Hierro and M. Conde, Úbeda, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Manchester Industry and Commerce, 1970; M. F. Prieto, “Úbeda”, in Contemporary Masters of Drawing, Madrid, Ibérico Europea, 1970; C. Areán, 30 Years of Spanish Art, Madrid, Guadarrama, 1972; A. M. Campoy, Exhibition Catalogue, Madrid, Biosca Gallery, 1986.
– Source: Real Academia de la Historia, 2018
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