Artist: Sunol Alvar
Title: Women with dove
Year: c.1980
Medium: Colors serigraph with embossing
Edition: Numbered E.A. 22/50 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Artwork (image) size: 36.25 x 27.65 inches
Framed size: 49 x 39.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Condition Excellent
Frame: Custom Framed in a wooden distressed brown and gold frame, with gold color bevel and decorated matting
About the artist:
Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos was born on January 20, 1935 in Montgat, a Catalan fishing village on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain. Sunol Alvar grew up on the sunny Mediterranean coast with his father Tomas, mother Antonia and his older brother and sister, Jordi and Amadea. Showing a great artistic talent as a youth, he attended the Sant Jordi Art School in Barcelona at age 16.
At age 18, he won the "Alhambra de Granada" grant, a summer scholarship that allowed him to travel and paint throughout Spain. This was the birth of Alvar's style and the laying of the technical foundation that would accompany him over the following years. Alvar returned home and entered a painting in competition for the Young Painter's Prize sponsored by the City of Barcelona. He won the Grand Prize and the painting was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona for its permanent collection.
In 1957, at age 22, Alvar gave his first one-man show at the Galleries Layetana in Barcelona. The exhibit was a great success and Alvar received many invitations for shows in other Spanish cities. He entered one of his canvasses for the annual painting competition at the French Institute of Barcelona. He again won the Grand Prize, and with it a study trip to Paris.
Alvar arrived in Paris to paint in 1959. He met Juan Fuentes, a fellow Spaniard and director of the prestigious Gallery Drouant. Fuentes brought Alvar's first group of Paris oil paintings to the gallery. All of the paintings sold in one week. He was subsequently invited to join the celebrated "School of Paris," a group of the top young artists in Paris, organized by the distinguished Charpentier Gallery.
His paintings were exhibited in the United States for the first time at the Monede Gallery, New York city, in 1962. Alvar produced his first original lithographs for a one-man show at Gallery Drouant in 1963. In 1970, Alvar left Paris and returned to Spain.
Museum Shows
2009 Persistències: Exposicio de Dibuixos, Museo de Dibujo Julio Gabin, Castillo de Larrés, Huesca, Spain; 2008 Inauguració de l'Escultura, "A Pau Casals" al career Pau Casals, Boulogne-Villencourt, Paris, France; 2007 Alvar Suñol: Retrospectiva 1954-2008, Museu de Badalona, Barcelona, Spain; 2007 The Georgia Centet, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA 2007 Alvar: Contemporary Renaissance, A Retrospective, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia, USA; 2007 Alvar Suñol: A Retrospective, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida, USA; 2003 Realizació de l'escultura "Mediterrània" situada a la Plaça de les Mallorquines, Montgat, Montgat, Spain; 2001 Alvar: Huellas en el tiempo, A Retrospective, Instituto Cervantes, Toulouse & Bordeaux, France; 2001 Lithographs by Alvar, Retrospective, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, USA; 2000 Alvar: Empremptes en el temps, Abadia de Sant Miquel del Fai, Barcelona, Spain; 1999 Heullas en el Timpo, Retrospective, Sala Moneo, Ayuntamiento de Logroño; 1999 Heullas en el Timpo, Retrospective, Centro Cultural Ibercaja, Guadalajara; 1997 Empremptes en el temps, Retrospective, Castell de Benedormiens, Castell d'Aro, Girona, Spain; 1983 Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, USA; 1982 Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 1978 Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, Perpinyà, Spain
Museum Collections
Albany Museum of Art (Albany, Georgia, USA); Appleton Museum of Art (Ocala, Florida, USA); Art Center of La Jolla (La Jolla, California, USA); Casa de Cultura (Girona, Spain); Casa-Museo de Goya (Fuendetodos, Spain); Cultural Ibercaja (Guadalajara, Spain); Colleció del Banc de Sabadell (Sabadell, Spain); Finch College (New York, USA); Fukuoka Museum (Fukuoka, Japan); Fons d'art del Castell de Benedormiens (Castell d'Aro, Spain); Gabinet des Estampes Musée de Berlin-Dahlem (Berlin, Germany); Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, Georgia, USA); Glassboro State College (Glassboro, New Jersey, USA) Huellas en el Tiempo (Logroo, Spain) Instituto Cervantes (Bordeaux & Toulouse, France); Jamestown College (Jamestown, North Dakota, USA); Kumamoto Museum (Kumamoto, Japan); Liberty University (Lynchburg, Virginia, USA); Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud (Perpignan, France); Museo de Dibujo Julio Gavín (Osca, Spain;) Museo del Grabado (Zaragoza, Spain); Museo del Grabado Contemporáneo (Marbella, Spain); Museo de Badalona (Badalona, Spain); Museu Europeu d'Art Modern (Barcelona, Spain); Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain); Museum of Biblical Art (Dallas, Texas, USA); Utah Museum of Fine Art (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Wichita Art Museum (Wichita, Kansas, USA)