EUSTAQUI SEGRELLES DEL PILAR (Albaida, Valencia,... Lot 21

EUSTAQUI SEGRELLES DEL PILAR (Albaida, Valencia, 1936). "Fisherwomen", 1995. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back. Size: 33 x 46 cm; 62 x 77 cm (frame). Segrelles trained in Valencia, at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts and at the Vicente Barreira Academy. He began his career as an illustrator and cartoonist, working for the publishing houses Maga, Bardon Press, Selecciones Ilustradas and Bruguera between 1955 and 1972. His first important personal exhibition was held at the Círculo Mercantil de Onteniente in 1957. In 1967 he was selected by the Agrupación Nacional de Bellas Artes to exhibit in New York and Copenhagen, and in 1972 he obtained a grant from the Valencia City Council to complete his training at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid. The following year he received a grant to paint in El Aaiún, then Spanish Sahara. During the following years he held personal exhibitions in various galleries in Valencia, Bilbao, Madrid, Zaragoza, Castellón and Tarragona. From the seventies onwards his international projection began, which led him to hold innumerable exhibitions in Spain, Portugal, France, the United States, Jordan, Australia, Japan, etc. Segrelles is a member of the Accademia Internazionale Greci-Marino in Italy, and has been awarded, throughout his career, the First Prize for Outdoor Painting by the City Council of Valencia (1964), the Medal for Artistic Merit by the Ministry of Information and Tourism (1970), the First Karman Prize in Seville (1973), the Prize of the Diputación de Barcelona (1976) and the International Prize and Gold Medal Villa de Pego (Alicante, 1976). Segrelles' artistic personality is characterised by the use of solid, clear, vibrant colours of great expressive force. His peculiar palette is combined with a studied and constant play of light, faithful to the light of the Mediterranean and of his homeland, Valencia. Heir to the purest Mediterranean luminism, he speaks to us through his brushes of the life of the fishermen of the Levantine coast, with a great expressive facility and an outstanding technique. Segrelles is currently represented in the Museo de Dibujo Castillo de Larrés, in Huesca.