JACINTO SALVADÓ ARAGONÉS (Montroig, Tarragona, 1892 - Le Castellet, France, 1983).
Untitled.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed on the back (later covered with paint).
Size: 40 x 26 cm; 49,5 x 35,5 cm (frame).
After beginning his training at the La Lonja School in Barcelona, Salvadó made his first study trip to Paris in 1909. Five years later he settled in Marseilles and completed his studies at the School of Fine Arts. In 1919 he returned to Paris, where he visited the avant-garde art exhibitions and came into contact with Derain, Picasso, Torres-García and Julio González, among others. He alternated his residence between Paris and Barcelona until 1931, and made his individual debut in Barcelona in 1921 at the Galerías Dalmau. In 1924 he signed a contract with the Parisian Galeries Primtemps to decorate their shop windows. His first one-man show in Paris took place three years later at the Galerie Bing, where he was highly praised. He also took part in the Salons d'Automne and the Salons des Indépendants. He returned to his native Montroig in 1931, where he devoted himself for a time to plein air painting. His work acquired pictorial features of classicism, expressionism and surrealism, until he reached abstraction. During the 1930s and 1940s Salvadó, who first settled in Zurich and then in Le Castellet, began to combine figuration with geometric abstraction; in 1936 he painted his first abstract work, profoundly influenced by the geometric forms and precise calculation of Kandinsky. During the post-war period he took part in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, with compositions that were already close to Informalism, while retaining their geometrical basis. His last period, during the 1970s, centred on a return to flat geometry and strong chromatic ranges. He is currently represented at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Tarragona, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the IVAM in Valencia.