Ángeles Santos Torroella: Difference between revisions

Àngels Santos Torroella (Portbou, Spain, 1912) is a Catalan surrealist painter.

In 1931 he presented a solo exhibition in Paris in 1932 and participated in the Iberian Artists Collective in Copenhagen and Paris. In 1933 he was invited to the exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (USA) and the 1936 figure of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. [1] presented in Barcelona for the first time in 1935 at Syra Galleries. His work, decanted into Post-Impressionism, is preferably landscape and interiors. His most important painting is a world of large format oil represents a strange surreal world (Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia) Sister of the poet and art critic Rafael Santos Torroella, he married fellow painter Emilio Grau Sala, and his son, the painter Julian Grau Santos. In 2005 he received the Cross of St. George.