CARLOS RUANO LLOPIS (Alicante, 1879 - Mexico City,... Lot 78

CARLOS RUANO LLOPIS (Alicante, 1879 - Mexico City, 1950) Untitled. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 42,5 x 70,5 cm; 66 x 94 cm (frame). Dramatic and dynamic scene, clearly influenced by the engravings of bullfighting theme of the own Goya, captured with a loose and fast brushstroke, very juicy, that ignores the drawing and constructs the forms, the volumes and the spaces through the chromatic work. It also highlights the lighting, very effective and contrasted, which focuses our attention on the characters in the foreground, leaving the rest wrapped in a nuanced twilight that reinforces the dramatic character of the scene. Painter and poster artist trained at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos, he won the gold medal at the Regional Exhibition of Valencia in 1909. In 1912 he made the first of his famous bullfighting posters. He exhibited in Valencia, Madrid, Bilbao, Marseilles and Paris, and collaborated with "La Esfera", "Mundo Gráfico", "El Mercantil Valenciano", etc. In 1934 he settled permanently in Mexico and promoted his international career, with personal exhibitions in Mexico (1938, 1949), Caracas (1949), New York (1945) and Philadelphia. He is considered today the best bullfighting poster artist, a genre in which he established a prototype that has endured to the present day.