José María Mallol Suazo

JOSÉ MARÍA MALLOL SUAZO (Barcelona, 1910 - 1986).
"Female portrait.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Size: 81.5 x 65 cm; 97.5 x 81 cm (frame).
Mallol Suazo trained at the La Lonja School in Barcelona between 1929 and 1935. He was a draughtsman as well as a painter, and published humorous illustrations in "En Patufet", "Virolet" and "L'Esquitx". The first exhibition of his work took place at the Barcelona Contemporary Art Exhibition in 1936. That same year he was awarded a prize at the Spring Exhibition in Barcelona and, in 1938, the Nonell Prize for Painting, awarded by the Tardor gallery. In 1945 he became a member of the group of artists at the Sala Parés, the gallery where he met the collector Josep Omar Gelpi, who became his dealer from then on. Mallol did not allow himself to be dragged along by the prevailing artistic trends, always remaining faithful to his own realistic-poetic language.
In this work Mallol Suazo offers us a still life made up of fruit and various ceramic pieces arranged anarchically against a modern background of white and green stripes. The artist draws the forms with a broad, free, impastoed brushstroke and uses a chromatic range based on greens, greys and blues, among which the bright red of one of the vegetables stands out.
In 1987, a year after his death, the Sala Parés devoted a large exhibition in homage to Mallol. The artist is also represented in such important museums as the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Museum of Valls, the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona and the Abbey of Montserrat, as well as in important private collections.

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