Miguel Ibarz

Miguel Ibarz (Mequinenza, 1920- Barcelona, 1987) began his training at the Escola de Mar, Barcelona. Later, in 1952, he spent a year in Paris, where he initiated an expressive realist phase that was somewhat melancholy and with some Cubist connotations. Subsequently, he would travel to Italy and his painting would become more colourist and Mediterranean. There then appear compositions that are highly colourist and with a great amount of light. There are landscapes and still lifes where calm and serenity reign and where fruits, birds, and vases are treated with delicacy and tenderness. Represented by the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona, Ibarz has shown his work in important galleries in Madrid, Saragossa, Frankfurt, Washington and Toronto. Among his prizes and recognitions one can highlight the Premio San Jorge in 1966 and the first Premio de Grabado Ciudad de Barcelona in 1969.