CANALS STUDIO (Catalonia, 1925-1995).
"Alicia", 2001.
Oil on canvas.
Presents signature with anagram, date and title on the base.
Measurements: 41 x 50 cm; 52 x 62 cm (frame).
Child portrait on a neutral background that focuses all the attention on the girl's face and her innocent posture on the table. The piece recovers to some extent the atmosphere of the Spanish still life of the 17th century, which can be seen in the background, and the completely sober horizontal wooden table.
Estudio Canals was an artistic group created in Barcelona in the 1970s. It was a small group of painters who took their inspiration from the classics, thus bringing the painting of the great masters closer to modernity. Its greatest representative was the painter Miguel Canals, a great connoisseur of techniques and languages from different periods. He bequeathed us a huge variety of works inspired by the Renaissance, the Baroque, Impressionism... Seurat's bathers, Monet's water lily pond, Pissarro's landscapes, Degas's dancers, English hunting scenes, Venetian capriccios, Van Gogh's igneous fields, Quattrocentist virgins... Canals, with his virtuosity and versatility, made a name for himself among art history collectors. Although he did not try to copy, but to create a kind of symbiosis with the original. A connoisseur of ancient techniques, he sometimes gave his paintings a period patina, but without intending to deceive; rather, as he said, he wanted future experts to know that it was a contemporary work.