Magnificent impressionist painting of the people and animals at the circus.  This is a signed and numbered lithograph 67 of 350. It is 16" x 18" viewable and 23" x 26" framed (glass has been removed for shipping).  

Emilio Grau Sala was born in Barcelona in 1911 as the son of a painter and attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes in his hometown.  In 1930 he held his first exhibition.  During the Spanish Civil War, the artist emigrated to Paris.  Here he was influenced by Impressionism and artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall or Raoul Dufy and exhibited in the Salon du Printemps.  He also created illustrations for writings such as Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire or Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant, as well as posters and lithographs.  In 1963 Grau Sala returned to Barcelona.  The artist passed away in 1975.  His multi-faceted and comprehensive oeuvre, which was only rediscovered in the 1990s, includes interiors, scenes on the racecourse as well as circus and summery motifs in the park or garden.