DANIEL SABATER SALABERT (Valencia, 1888- Barcelona,... Lot 46

DANIEL SABATER SALABERT (Valencia, 1888- Barcelona, 1951). "La historia del hombre...", Paris, 1930. Oil on canvas. It has some flaws in the frame. Signed and titled in the lower left corner. Signed, dated and located on the back. Measurements: 55 x 65 cm; 82 x 93 cm (frame). Daniel Sabater trained in Barcelona, where he had two solo exhibitions before embarking on a series of trips to America and Europe, where he completed his training and held numerous exhibitions. Finally settling in Paris, he returned to Spain around 1950. Among his solo exhibitions was the one held at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid in 1953. He cultivated a style framed within the framework of Symbolist academicism and was called "the painter of witches", as these were one of his favourite subjects. Technically, he was noted for his loose, highly controlled execution, which achieves an enormously expressive sketchiness, and for his brilliant chromaticism, an heir to 19th-century Impressionism. He is represented in the Museo de Bellas Artes San Pío V in Valencia.