CARME CORTÈS LLADÓ (Santa Coloma de Gramanet,... Lot 41

CARME CORTÈS LLADÓ (Santa Coloma de Gramanet, 1892 - Mexico City, 1979). "The spinner". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 61,5 x 46,5 cm; 72 x 57 cm (frame). The painter Carme Cortès stood out especially in the representation of feminine figures, sometimes anonymous portraits, but most of the time of close women, as it can be seen in the paintings conserved in the MNAC (Museu d'Art Nacional de Catalunya, Barcelona): a portrait of her daughter and another one of a newly married woman. In "La hilandera" she continues her interest in delving into the feminine universe that she knew well, while preserving the mystery of this private universe, which is shown in this pensive countenance of a humble woman wearing a handkerchief. Carme Cortès i Lladó was a Spanish impressionist painter. At the end of the civil war she went into exile in France and in 1941 she arrived in Mexico, where she created the School of Plastic Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. Daughter of Antonia Lladó Cullell and Antoni Cortés Valls, she was married to the republican politician Jaume Aiguadé Miró, deputy of the Cortes of the Republic and mayor of Barcelona, and was mother of the painter Carme Aguadé i Cortés. She began her musical studies with the maestros Enrique Granados and Felip Pedrell and gave her first concert in 1910. She later studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes directed by the painter Francesc d'Assís Galí and devoted herself fully to painting.