Signed lower right "Bay-Sala". Sight 36 5/8" X 28". On lower third border white spot paint loss, tiny. Juan Bay—n Salado, Bay-Sala, J. Bayon, J.B., Jean Salabet (1913-1995) A Biscayan artist, Juan Bay—n Salado, was born in Logro–o on June 24th, 1913. He died in Bilbao on April 2nd, 1995. In 1918 he moved to Bilbao. In the early 1930s, he installed his easel at the Bilbao Arenal, where he painted and raffled his paintings among the attendees in order to help his parents. At the time he used to sign as Bay—n, and soon after he became a benchmark in the area. According to the painter Manuel de Gracia:"Deeply human and supportive, he did not hesitate in front of the Bermeo catastrophe, where several fishermen died as a result of a gale-force, and in Santurce, before another fishermanÕs death, donating all his paintings to raise funds to widows and orphans, and during our competition, he painted at the Arenal for eight days in a row, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., in order to raise money for the Hospital de Sangre of the Gobierno de Euskadi. These are actions that he repeats again and again throughout his life whenever circumstances require it: the floods in Bilbao, the Ortuella explosion... and so many others."In 1941 he celebrated his first exhibition in Bilbao and a year later he exhibited in Zaragoza, where for the first time he used the pseudonym Bay Sala as signature of his works; that same year he also exhibited his works in Logro–o and Bilbao. In 1943 he attended the Exposici—n Nacional de Bellas Artes with the painting Puerto de Motrico and held exhibitions in Barcelona and Bilbao. Two years later his work La Mina Abandonada was present at the Exposici—n Nacional de Bellas Artes. That same year he presented himself at the Primera Exposici—n Provincial de Bellas Artes in Bilbao with the works Riberas Frondosas and La Mina Abandonada and he obtained the Excmo. Ayuntamiento de BilbaoÕs gold medal. From that date onwards he hasnÕt participated in any other contest. In 1945 he was a founding partner of the Asociaci—n Art’stica Vizca’na. In 1948 he participated in the exhibition "35 Paisajes Vascos" at the Witcomb Gallery in Buenos Aires; also making his presentation in Madrid. In the spring of 1950 he set off for Paris, where he settled his residence until the end of 1969 in search of the roots of Impressionism. During those twenty years, as Manuel Lumbreras indicates, he:"exhibits regularly at the Roussard Gallery in Paris, as well as at the Salon Cano in Madrid and at the former Sala Arte of Bilbao. He is summoned from Buenos Aires and Tokyo and he is selected, along with 35 other artists, to cover the 16th and 17th editions of the Salon de Toile in Paris, together with such eminent artists as Cocteau, Dal’, Dufy, Picasso, Utrillo and Vlaminck, among others. His works become part of the most important international collections around the world."In 1968 he held exhibitions in Tokyo and Paris. A year later, he returned for good to Bilbao, where he regularly held exhibitions, as well as in Madrid and Barcelona; he also spent long periods painting in Holland, France, Italy, USSR, Belgium and Ireland.

34.75 x 42.25 in