Valladolid, ES
Details
- Dimensions
- 31.5ʺW × 1.57ʺD × 27.95ʺH
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Forest Green
- Condition Notes
- Very Good — This vintage item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use. Very Good — This vintage item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use. less
- Description
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“St. James's Park, London”, Josep Mª Vayreda Canadell (1932-2001) - Catalonia, Spain
Exquisite view of Saint James's Park, a charming … more “St. James's Park, London”, Josep Mª Vayreda Canadell (1932-2001) - Catalonia, Spain
Exquisite view of Saint James's Park, a charming British park located in the Westminster area of central London. It is the oldest of the city's Royal Parks. The horizontal layout and the contrast between vegetation and architecture give a feeling of serenity and balance to this urban scene. On the other hand, the trees, although bare, provide dynamism with their thin and twisted branches that visually intertwine.
The painting shows varied brushstrokes: on the grass and bushes, the brushstrokes are denser and more textured, giving depth to the green and autumnal tones of the vegetation, while the buildings are worked with greater precision. The sky, on the other hand, appears softer and more uniform, which causes the viewer to focus their attention on the rest of the elements.
Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell (1932-2001) was a post-war Spanish artist, known for his landscapes, urban and interior, with a very unique style that focuses on the light and texture of his surroundings. His depiction of light and muted palettes give his paintings an ethereal quality.
Member of an Olot family saga of artists, in which his great-uncle Joaquim Vayreda, founder of the so-called Olot Landscape School, stood out, he left as a legacy a large collection of oil paintings in which he captured his particular vision of landscapes of cities like Olot, Girona, Cadaqués, Venice or Paris, and cafe interiors and terraces. Although his connection with the Olot School was very close, the painter, who signed his works as Vayreda C., never completely adhered to the aesthetic premises of that movement and leaned towards a very personal realism.
During a stage of his career he entered the world of abstraction and informalism, to return at the end of the 1950s to figuration, not as a break with the previous stage but as a synthesis: his is a figuration structured based on of an arrangement of geometric shapes. In his paintings he captured his personal vision of the world.
His first exhibition took place at the Sala Jardí in Barcelona, in 1958. That same year he moved to Paris, where both his fame and his clientele increased. Among its first clients, Queen Paola of Belgium and actors such as Glenn Ford and Fred MacMurray stood out, but the person responsible for its definitive international projection was the North American collector Jerome Soloman.
Vayreda exhibited his works in numerous European cities, such as London and Paris, and North America, including Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York, where he is especially appreciated.
Title: “St. James's Park, London
Technique on support: Oil on canvas
Author: Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell (1932-2001)
School: Catalan School
Period: End of the 20th century
Country of origin: Gerona, Spain
Good condition according to its age and use
Overall dimensions: 71 x 80 x 4 cm.
Dimensions without frame: 44 x 53 cm.
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