GUILLERMO GÓMEZ GIL (Malaga, 1862 - Cadiz, 1942) "Marina". Oil... Lot 45

GUILLERMO GÓMEZ GIL (Malaga, 1862 - Cadiz, 1942) "Marina". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 60 x 100 cm. Gómez Gil began his training in Malaga, where he had Emilio Ocón y Rivas as his first teacher, to later continue his studies as a disciple of Federico Ferrándiz and Antonio Muñoz Degrain. He specialised in landscape painting, particularly marine landscapes, paying particular attention to lighting effects. In 1892 he submitted six landscape paintings to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid, three of them of the port of Malaga and two entitled "Una borrasca" ("A Squall") and "Efecto de sol" ("Effect of the Sun"). He won a third medal with marine themes at the National Exhibition of 1897 with an oil painting entitled "Efecto de luna" ("Moon Effect"). In 1901 he won a second medal with a work of the same title, and repeated the award in 1906 with "Marina" and "Playas de Málaga". In 1910 he became a teacher at the Seville School of Arts and Industries and spent long periods in Cadiz. A painter of refined technique and great sensitivity, he left for posterity numerous seascapes which are models in their genre, especially outstanding in the depiction of the reflection of the sun and moon on the surface of the sea. Guillermo Gómez Gil is represented in the Museo del Prado, the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, the Museo del Patrimonio Municipal de Málaga, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, the Diputación Provincial de Zamora and the Museo de San Telmo in San Sebastián.