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Lot 53: Músicos en un anfiteatro (Musiciens dans l'amphitheatre)

Est: £25,000 GBP - £35,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomJune 26, 2007

Item Overview

Description

Mariano Andreu (Spanish, 1888-1977) Músicos en un anfiteatro (Musiciens dans l'amphitheatre) signed and dated 'Mariano Andreu/40' (lower right) oil on panel 17¾ x 26¼ in. (45.1 x 66.7 cm.) Painted in 1940.

Exhibited

Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot Fils, Mariano Andreu, 17 December 1960 - 5 January 1961, no. 12 (as Acrobates à la contrebasse).

Notes

A stage-set designer, illustrator, enameller, sculptor and painter, Mariano Andreu is noted for his powerful sense of form and colour. Although he spent much of his career in Paris in London, his paintings are rooted in a Spanish tradition: his elongated figures have their roots in El Greco, while Salvador Dalí's known admiration for his compatriot reflects Surrealist undercurrent which pervades Andreu's work.

Andreu reach a height of popularity in the 1930s, working on stage designs at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera and at Stratford-upon-Avon. He was particularly popular in the USA, exhibiting widely there before winning the Carnegie Prize, together with Marc Chagall, in 1940.



Diseñador de escenarios, ilustrador, esmaltador, escultor y pintor, Mariano Andreu destaca por su poderoso sentido de la forma y el color. Aunque pasó mucho tiempo en París y en Londres, sus cuadros tienen reminiscencias de la tradición española: sus alargadas figuras tienen raíces en el Greco, mientras que su conocida admiración por su compatriota Salvador Dalí refleja un Surrealismo que permanece en las obras de este artista.

Andreu alcanza su mayor popularidad en los años 30 trabajando en los escenarios del Covent-Garden, de la Ópera de París y de Stratford-upon-Avon. Fue especialmente popular en Estados Unidos, exponiendo frecuentemente ahí antes de ganar el Premio Carnegie, junto con Marc Chagall, en 1940.

Auction Details

19th Century European Art, including Spanish and Orientalist Art

by
Christie's
June 26, 2007, 12:00 PM EST

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK