Description
Oil on canvas representing a bullfighting scene by Joaquín Terruella Matilla.
Measurements: with frame 140 high x 105 wide cm without frame 124 high x 90.5 wide cm
Joaquín Terruella Matilla (Barcelona 1891-1957) Painter and draftsman, nephew and disciple of Segundo Matilla. He traveled to Italy with Santiago Rusiñol (1923) and cultivated landscape and genre painting. In 1916 he held his first exhibition in the now disappeared Goya Gallery in Barcelona, and later in Madrid (1922). In 1924 he exhibited again in Barcelona at the Sala Parés, and from 1925 to 1927 he exhibited in Zaragoza and in several French cities. In 1956 he exhibited for the last time in the Busquets room in Barcelona, since then his work has been present in various group exhibitions and anthological exhibitions such as the one held in the Gothsland room in Barcelona in 1985. In 1993 Angeles Cortina, gathered in his Barcelona gallery a series of oil paintings and drawings.
He was a fundamentally landscape painter, situated in the wake of impressionism, who reflected with delicacy and subtle transparency the Catalan landscape.
