Limited Edition, embossed colour lithograph "Still Life, with Fruit" by Sunol Alvar. Signed in pencil, numbered 55/260, sheet 24 ½ x 18 ¼”. In good condition, but some discoloration on verso, which does not affect the print.
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Alvar Suñol Munoz-Ramos, Spanish (1935 - )
Sunol Alvar was born on January 20, 1935 in
Montgat, a Catalan fishing village on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain. Sunol
Alvar grew up on the sunny Mediterranean coast with his father Tomas, mother
Antonia and his older brother and sister, Jordi and Amadea. Showing a great
artistic talent as a youth, he attended the Sant Jordi Art School in Barcelona
at age 16.
At age 18, he won the “Alhambra de Granada” grant, a summer
scholarship that allowed him to travel and paint throughout Spain. This was the
birth of Alvar’s style and the laying of the technical foundation that would
accompany him over the following years. Alvar returned home and entered a
painting in competition for the Young Painter’s Prize sponsored by the City of
Barcelona. He won the Grand Prize and the painting was acquired by the Museum
of Modern Art in Barcelona for its permanent collection.
In 1957, at age 22, Alvar gave his first one-man show at the
Galleries Layetana in Barcelona. The exhibit was a great success and Alvar
received many invitations for shows in other Spanish cities. He entered one of
his canvasses for the annual painting competition at the French Institute of
Barcelona. He again won the Grand Prize, and with it a study trip to Paris.
Alvar arrived in Paris to paint in 1959. He met Juan
Fuentes, a fellow Spaniard and director of the prestigious Gallery Drouant.
Fuentes brought Alvar’s first group of Paris oil paintings to the gallery. All
of the paintings sold in one week. He was subsequently invited to join the celebrated
“School of Paris,” a group of the top young artists in Paris, organized by the
distinguished Charpentier Gallery.
Alvar returned to Barcelona in 1960 to marry his childhood
sweetheart, Rosella Berenguer. They returned to Paris and lived there for the
next ten years. His paintings were exhibited in the United States for the first
time at the Monede Gallery, New York city, in 1962. Alvar produced his first
original lithographs for a one-man show at Gallery Drouant in 1963. In 1970,
Alvar and Rosella left Paris and returned to their beloved Spain to raise their
three young children. He has lived there ever since.
Sunol Alvar has exhibited regularly throughout the world
over the years. His lithographs were honored with an exhibition at the Hyacinth
Rigand Museum in Perpignan, France. The Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake
City, Utah and the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas have held major
exhibits of his lithographs, paintings and sculptures.