ANTONI CLAVÉ I SANMARTà (Barcelona, 1913 - Saint Tropez, France, 2005)."La Punaise Rouge", 1982.Mixed media on paper glued on canvas.Signed and dated in the lower right corner.Size: 50 x 53 cm; 64 x 67 cm (frame).Antoni Clavé is one of the most relevant figures of Spanish contemporary art. Trained in Barcelona, during the Civil War he settled in Paris, where he met Vuillard, Bonnard and Picasso. The Gaspar Gallery in Barcelona was the one that, as a result of an exhibition in 1956, brought national recognition to an artist who by then enjoyed a solid prestige in Europe and the United States. He was awarded prizes at the Hallimark in New York in 1948, at the Venice Biennial in 1954 and at the Tokyo International Biennial in 1957. In 1984 the Spanish State recognized his artistic value with the exhibition of more than one hundred of his works in the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. That same year he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He is represented in the Fine Arts Museum of Bilbao, the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the British Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.