Can't found artist..help!!

Does anyone recognize those painting and author..Someone offer to me to buy and wondering if that painting is worth anything..

 

Abel Vallmitjana.

 

Is it worth anything in yours opinion.

 

Here’s a couple sale records.

http://www.findartinfo.com/english/list-prices-by-artist/221677/abel-vallmitjana.html

 

Thanks..really helpful

 

And here is a brief autobiography.

https://blog.bookstorey.co.uk/post/156220782670/abel-vallmitjana

Debora

 

Surreal. Love it !

 

Actually, he was apparently part of the Intrarealism movement. Deeper than Surrealism, according to this.

https://www.guiradoestate.com/what-is-intrarealism

Debora

 

Always learning on here. Thats why I love this place !

 

Never heard of it myself but it's associated with Hitchcock.

Debora

 

Is that because of the Dalí dreamsequence in Hitchcock's Spellbound maybe?

 

Interesting that the term was coined in 1965, the same year that Vallmitjana had an exhibition titled "Hallucinating and Hallucinated Spain." Sounds like the movement existed before that, but that word was not used for it? (The article is silent on that aspect.) And the painting that Kamil is asking about is also dated 1965.
[ADDED: The article alludes to the idea that this movement may have begun with the 1965 exhibition of Vallmitjana. If so, it postdated the beginning of Surrealism, which I believe began in the 1920s.]

 

Here's a biography of the artist in Spanish. (It can be run through Google Translate if anyone is interested.)

http://museovirtual.gob.ve/creadores/221/abel_vallmitjana

Debora

 

Thanks for that. Very interesting! I see it says the intrarealists had their first exhibition in 1967, and that is also interesting.

A long time ago I took a graduate course that was basically about the political aspects of running a museum and also collecting for a museum. This was when I lived in Chicago. One of our assignments was to go to a number of galleries and to look for prints and other flat or small art items that would meet the parameters of the collections of a museum in the Chicago area that happened to be led by our teacher. (Smart way for him to send scouts around to find things for him.) He gave us a hypothetical $500 to spend. He also promised to buy at least one thing that one of us found, although he ended up saying he would get three of the ones we found. We each had to give a presentation to the class about the piece, so that meant we had to research it as much as possible.

Anyway, the print I found was by Federico Castellón, who was born in Spain but moved to the U.S. as a child. He later studied in Europe at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and some of his art reflected that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Castellón

I had never heard of him, but became very interested in his early work, some of which had surrealist aspects. His later work was fine, too, but I liked the earlier work. By the way, mine was one of the pieces the teacher chose to buy. Here is a copy of a print of it online! https://www.1stdibs.com/art/prints-...trait-signed-federico-castellon/id-a_2932791/

I was wondering whether he and Abel Vallmitjana knew each other or traveled in the same circles but I don't see evidence of that in what I've read.

 

What an interesting class project! I certainly suspect they would have known of each other at the very least. They were the same generation (only 5 years separated them,) both worked in Surrealism and both knew and exhibited with some of the best known artists of their period. I was interested in this from wikipedia.org referring to Castellón: "His prints and drawings of the early 1930s are the first examples of Surrealism created by an American..."

Debora