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José Vento (1925-2005)

Escena evangélica

Details

José Vento (1925-2005)
Escena evangélica
signed 'Vento' (lower left); signed and inscribed '"ESCENA EVANGELICA" JOSE VENTO ORACUGO 48 MADRID' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
44 x 63¼ in. (112 x 161 cm.)

Exhibited

Lisbon, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Veinte anos de pintura Espagnola Contemporanea, 1959, no. 30.

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Lot Essay

José Vento began drawing as a child during an extended period of convalescence. He went on to study at the San Carlos Fine Arts School, Valencia, and the San Fernando Fine Arts School, Madrid. At the beginning of 1960 he joined the 'Hondo Group' and developed a neo-figurative art along with Juan Genovés and Fernando Mignoni. From figurative very intimate scenes full of light, he turned his interests to Abstraction, where geometry and the strong presence of matter became the defining features of his personal expressionistic pictorial language.

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