JUAN BAUTISTA PORCAR RIPOLLÉS (Castellón de la... Lot 35

JUAN BAUTISTA PORCAR RIPOLLÉS (Castellón de la Plana, Castellón, 1889 - 1974). "Level crossing". Oil on canvas. Signed in the upper left corner. Signed and titled on the back. Measurements: 60 x 80,5 cm; 79 x 100 cm (frame). Trained with Vicente Castell, in 1906 he travels to Valencia thanks to a scholarship, and enters the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos. Four years later he settled in Barcelona, where he studied at the Escuela de La Lonja. After completing his studies, in 1915 he returned to Castellón, where he founded the Agrupación Ribalta, which focused on landscape painting. A regular at the Círculo Artístico de Sant Lluc in Barcelona, he made his individual debut at the La Pinacoteca gallery in 1918, where he continued to exhibit frequently from then on. He took part in the Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929, as well as in international competitions in Venice, Oslo, Buenos Aires and Paris. In 1954 he won the first medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, an award which brought him definitive recognition. Porcar is represented in the Museums of Fine Arts in Valencia, Alicante and Castellón, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vilafamés, the Lladró Museum and the National Theatre Museum in Almagro, among others.