GRAND SPRING AUCTION OF PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, LATIN AMERICAN ART AND FINE WATCHES
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Hand glazed and polychrome stoneware. Measurements: 100 x 70 cm framed. Alvar Suñol Munoz-Ramos, (born January 29, 1935), is a Spanish painter, sculptor and lithographer. Born in Montgat, Spain, Alvar began painting at age 12. He was accepted into the San Jorge School of Fine Arts in Barcelona when he was 17 years old. At 18, he won a competition for young painters organized by the city of Barcelona. The painting from that competition is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art of Barcelona. In 1957 he held his first exhibition without accompaniment at the Layetana Galleries in Barcelona. In 1959, after serving in the Spanish Armed Forces, Alvar went to Paris to continue painting. He won a scholarship to study there in the Institut Francais competition held in Barcelona. Alvar met Juan Fuentes, director of the Galerie Drouant. After Fuentes sold Alvar’s first set of paintings within a week, Alvar signed a contract with the gallery. In 1960, the art critic Jacques Lassaigne suggested that Alvar participate in the Paris Salon School. Important private Basque collection.
