Eduardo Arranz-Bravo S/N Lithograph, Romantics
Artist: Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
Title: Jerry
Year: 1991
Medium: Lithograph on Arches [Signed and Numbered in Pencil]
Edition: 100
Paper Size: 22" x 30"
Eduardo Arranz–Bravo (Spanish, b. 1941)
Like Florence in the Renaissance and Paris and New York in modern times, Catalonia has spawned some of the world’s greatest masters. Gaudi, Dalí, Picasso, Miró and Tàpies are among its most celebrated artists. The latest of these is Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, born in Barcelona and to this day, its eminent son. With his Catalonian peers, Arranz-Bravo shares a visceral creativity matched by outstanding technical skills. His art, like theirs, is signature, inventive, challenging and in constant evolution. Arranz-Bravo calls on a profound understanding of his own position in the historical context of 20th century art, while simultaneously advancing figural art with each new work in a manner that some have called “futuristic.”
Arranz-Bravo has been the subject of solo exhibitions in private galleries and public institutions around the globe. He has represented Spain in diverse world biennials, most notably, the prestigious 1980 Venice Biennale, recognized as the world’s most important international exposition of fine art. Retrospectives of his work include those staged at the Museo de Arte Moderno in São Paulo and the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hailed in Europe as one of the leading painters of his generation, Arranz-Bravo has been represented by Franklin Bowles Galleries since 1997.
Selected Solo Shows
1996 Anthology Centro Cultural Tecla Sala
Anthology, Centro Cultural de la Caiza de Terrassa
Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona
1999 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Galeria Trama, Barcelona, Spain
1998-02 Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York, NY
Selected Museum Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art – Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Fine Arts – Vitoria, Spain
Museum of Fine Arts – Seville, Spain
Museum of Modern Art – Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Modern Art – São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Villafamés- Castellón, Spain
Olympic Museum – Lausanne, Switzerland
Proctor & Gamble – Belgium
Selected Solo Shows
1961 Club Universitario, Barcelona, Spain
1964 International Biennial, Ibiza, Spain (Grand Prize & Gold Medal)
1971 Spanish Institute, New York, New York
1972 Colegio de Arquitectos, Barcelona, Spain
1975 XI International Biennale, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1980 XXXIX Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1981 Baden-Baden Biennale, Baden-Baden, Germany
Medellín Biennale, Medellin, Colombia
1987 Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany
Galerie Anne-Marie de Sacy, Paris, France
1989 Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1990 Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
1991 Grand Palais, Paris, France
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Ergane Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Expo Mundial, Seville, Spain
39th Annual International Festival at the Art Center, Norfolk, Virginia
Birmingham Festival of the Arts, Birmingham, Alabama (“Best Artist” award)
1993 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1995 Art Asia, Hong Kong, China
1996 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Rackey, Bonn, Germany
1998 Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York, New York
1999 Museo Nacionál Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2000 Messum’s Fine Art, London, England
Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York, New York
Museo Sprengel, Expo Mundial, Hannover, Germany
2001 Galerie Am Opernring, Vienna, Austria
2002 Mathias Kuhn Foundation, Mallorca, Spain
Museo Juan Cabre, Calaceite, Spain
2003 Centre Cultural de Girona, Antology Exhibition, Girona, Spain
Capella da Sant Nicolau, Girona, Spain
Selected Museum & Public Collections
Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid, Spain
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Royal Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Skidmore Art Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain
Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Toyo Bank, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Fine Arts, Vitoria, Spain
Museum of Fine Arts, Seville, Spain
Proctor & Gamble, Brussels, Belgium
Museum of Villafamés, Castellón, Spain
La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Yomanouchi Edition, Tokyo, Japan
Melicior Colet, Barcelona, Spain.
Commissions
1989 Three stamp designs, 1992 Olympic Games, Barcelona, Spain
1991 Art director, El largo invierno de 1936, Festival du Cinema, Venice, Italy
2000 Gran Teatre del Liceu Opera House, “Temporada d’Opera 2000-2001,” 43 paintings for catalogue
