Jordi Curos Woman With Guitar In Vibrant Fauvist Interior Spanish Figurative Mixed Media Art C.1985
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Woman with Guitar in Vibrant Fauvist Interior, Spanish Figurative Mixed Media Artwork
Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007)
Title: Woman with Guitar
Date: c.1985
Medium: Mixed media on Daler Board canvas panel
Dimensions: 55 × 46 cm (21.7 × 18.1 in)
Signature: Signed lower right
Framing: Unframed
Condition: Very good overall condition with minor age-related wear consistent with age.
Description
An expressive and highly decorative mixed media painting by celebrated Catalan artist Jordi Curós Ventura, depicting a seated woman holding a guitar within a luminous Mediterranean interior. Executed around 1985, the composition radiates the artist's unmistakable visual language, combining bold contour lines with vibrant magentas, cobalt blues and warm earth tones.
The figure is surrounded by an intimate domestic setting where an open window, flowers and simplified architectural elements create a poetic atmosphere infused with music, light and Mediterranean warmth. Curós masterfully balances geometric construction with emotional color, resulting in a work that is both modern and timeless.
Painted on professional Daler Board canvas panel, this original artwork belongs to the artist's mature figurative period, when his paintings became increasingly sought after for their joyful chromatic intensity and unmistakable decorative presence.
The painting is an excellent acquisition for collectors of post-war Spanish art, Catalan painting, Fauvist-inspired compositions, expressionist figurative works and sophisticated European interiors. Its harmonious palette and iconic subject make it equally suitable for contemporary, modern, eclectic and traditional spaces.
Artist Biography
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, 1930-2007) was one of the leading Catalan painters of the twentieth century. After studying at the School of Arts and Crafts in Olot, he began exhibiting professionally in Barcelona during the early 1950s and quickly established an important national and international reputation.
Throughout his career he exhibited extensively at prestigious venues including Sala Parés, Sala Syra, Galerías Layetanas and Galería Biosca in Madrid, while also participating in major international exhibitions such as the Hispano-American Biennials. Awarded scholarships to study in Paris, Curós continuously refined a highly personal artistic language that evolved from Informalism toward an expressive figurative style dominated by luminous color and Mediterranean subjects.
His works are represented in museums, institutional collections and distinguished private collections, and today he is regarded as one of the most collectible post-war Catalan painters.
Artistic Inspiration
This work will appeal to collectors interested in the artistic traditions of Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Bernard Buffet, Jean Jansem, Emili Grau Sala, Rafael Durancamps, María Girona, Joaquim Sunyer and other twentieth-century Mediterranean masters whose paintings celebrate expressive color, simplified forms, music and poetic interiors.
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