Ángeles Santos Torroella

Catalan Spanish surrealist painter

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Emili Grau i Sala

(m. 1936)

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Ángeles Santos Torroella (7 November 1911 – 3 October 2013) was a Catalan Spanish surrealist painter. Born in Portbou, Catalonia, she was the sister of the poet and art critic Rafael Santos Torroella. She married the painter Emili Grau Sala. Her son is the painter ca:Julià Grau i Santos. In 2003 she received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain^[2] and in 2005, the Creu de Sant Jordi, awarded by the Government of Catalonia.^[3]

Biography

In 1929 Santos Torroella presented her work Un Mundo (A World) at the Autumn Salon in Madrid.^[1] The next year she was given her own room at the exhibition.^[1] In 1931 she held a solo exhibit in Paris. In 1932, she participated in the Iberian Artists Collective in Copenhagen and Paris, and the next year was invited to the exhibit at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (USA). In 1936, she exhibited at the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. She exhibited in Barcelona for the first time in 1935, at Syra Galleries.

In 1936, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Santos Torroella and her husband fled Spain for France. She returned to Spain by herself in 1937.^[1] The couple reunited in 1962.^[1]

Work

Her early work ranges from expressionism to surrealism, though it later moved into Post-Impressionism, primordially landscape and interiors. Her most renowned painting is a large-format oil called Un mundo, representing a strange surreal planet, which she painted when she was 18 and is currently held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Works in museums

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
ca:Museu de l'Empordà, Figueres

Death

Torroella died on 3 October 2013, at the age of 101.^[4]^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Ángeles Santos obituary". The Guardian. London. 16 October 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
^ Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte: "Real Decreto 1778/2003, de 19 de diciembre, por el que se concede la Medalla al Mérito en las Bellas Artes, en su categoría de oro, a doña Ángeles Santos Torroella". Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (304). Madrid: 45378. 20 December 2003. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^ Tharrats, Joan-Josep (2007) [1981]. Cent Anys de Pintura a Cadaqués [A Hundred Years of Painting in Cadaqués] (in Catalan). Barcelona: Parsifal. p. 226. ISBN 978-84-95554-27-7. OCLC 10019971.
^ ABC, ES (3 October 2013). "Fallece a los 101 años la pintora Ángeles Santos Torroella" (in Spanish). ABC, ES. Retrieved 3 October 2013.