Gerardo LIZARRAGA (1905-1983) - Lot 207

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Gerardo LIZARRAGA (1905-1983) - Lot 207
Gerardo LIZARRAGA (1905-1983) The pass Gouache. Signed lower right 56x44 cm (at sight) Note: Gerardo Lizarraga Istúriz was born in Pamplona in 1905. After studying in 1924-1925 with Javier Ciga, he entered the the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, where he was a student of Cecilio Pla, Manuel Benedito and Romero de Torres. He made the Salvador Dali and Maruja Mayo. In 1927 he painted his painting "Ventisca", made in Peñalara, was presented and sponsored by King Alfonso XIII. He obtained the title of professor on June 15, 1928. That same year, the Diputación Foral de Navarra granted him a scholarship to study in Paris. In the French the French capital, he was surprised by the work of the Cubists. In 1928 he married Remedios Varo y Uranga in San Sebastian, whom he had met in San Fernando, and they moved to Barcelona. In the Catalan The couple moved to Barcelona and in the Catalan city he put his creative talents to good use. He was the director of Thus, he was the director of the opera "Pedro Mari (canción de libertad)", performed at the Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona and later throughout Catalonia. He founded the Syndicate of Professional of Barcelona and won prizes for his posters. for his posters. The union, affiliated with the General Union of The union, affiliated with the General Workers' Union, began a period of unbridled propaganda. Lizarraga founded the film company "Ediciones Anti- fascistas", of which he became both director and producer. director. He participated in exhibitions in his native province. In 1932, the couple separated in Barcelona without divorcing, shortly before the outbreak of the civil war. When the conflict broke out, Lizarraga took up the cause of the Republicans. The victory of Franco forces him to take refuge in France, he knows then the concentration camps of Argelès-sur-Mer and Agde, then that of Clermont-Ferrand. Thanks to the efforts of his wife undertaken by his wife, he was freed in 1941 and taken to Marseille, where he exhibited at the Paradis gallery and the Mirian Michelle. He divorced Remedios Varo. He was appointed artistic director artistic director of the International Office of Advertising and Publishing. He realizes models, portraits and presentations for the Allied Propaganda Office and Free France. France Libre. In 1942, he organized an exhibition of his work in Monte Carlo. Carlo, then he left France to settle in Mexico. His work is recognized there and he acquires notoriety and recognition, so much so that in 1945 he founded the Circle of Fine Arts, intended to promote painting. He became its becomes the president. He remarried a photographer, a Spanish refugee, from Tudela, Presentación Cruchaga Valdemoros. She two children, Amaya in 1947 and Xabier the following year. the following year. The couple divorced in 1963. In the 1970s, he met the met the writer Asunción Lazcorreta, who made a study on Remedios Varo who made a study on Remedios Varo, his first wife. He married Asunción Lazcorreta, so that she could acquire the Mexican nationality, but they will divorce in the years 1980. Gerardo Lizarraga died on August 3, 1982 in Mexico City. In Mexico, he painted murals, portraits and landscapes. He mounted the tribute exhibition to the painter Aurelio Arteta at the Basque Center in Mexico City. His work is vast and varied. We owe him oils, drawings drawings, engravings, illustrations, advertising and artistic posters and artistic posters, scenographies. His achievements are often are often marked by the tragedy lived by the Navarrese artist through of exile.
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