Description
Oil on canvas entitled “The bay of Sant Feliu de Guixols” by Josep Amat.
Size: with frame 110 x 89’5 cm unframed 81 x 60 cm.
Josep Amat (Barcelona April 13, 1901 – January 17, 1991), known as a young man with the nickname of “Pin”. He was a reference painter of the Catalan painting of the 20th century, dedicated mainly to the genre of landscapes. Framed in impressionism or post-impressionism, but after his death, with the perspective of his entire career, he is considered more independent and closer to Fauvism.
After his death, Amat has continued to receive recognition, such as the dedication by the Barcelona City Council in 1997 of a square, right next to where his home had been on Jules Verne Street, or the various events organized both in Barcelona and in Sant Feliu de Guixols and Girona, in 2001, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. In 1924 he met the painter Joaquin Mir and from then on he spent some time at his house in Vilanova i la Geltrú. In 1933 he visited Sant Feliu de Guixols for the first time, where he met Isabel Girbau, whom he married on June 17, 1936, being Joaquim Mir the best man.
After the Civil War, in 1940 he began to exhibit regularly at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, where he regularly exhibited his work every two years until 1988, when he held his last exhibition. He also held many exhibitions in Madrid, Bilbao, Paris, among other cities.
In 1981 he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi.
He died in Barcelona in 1991, being buried in Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
