Guinovart was a Catalan, which mens that during the Spanish civil war, his family fled Barcelona and retired to the country until the killing sprees were over. In 1944 he begaan his art studies; his first show ws in Galerias Stla in barcelona in 1948; in 1951 he made his first engravings (a "Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca," a great poet killed during the Civi War by Franco's troops); in 1952, he recived a grant from the French Institute to study in Paris for 9 months (later extended) and to discover the art of Picasso, Matisse, and the other great movers in Modernism and Surrealism. Guinovart was a sculptor, painter, printmaker, and a creator of 3-dimensional spaces using a wide rnge of materials and organic substances such as eggshells, earth, and straw. We were able to tour one of these at the Chicago International Art Show at the Navy Pier in 1985 and fell in love with his use of space. We also fell in love with his prints (many of them hand-colored), some of which can be found below and on the following web page. Most of Guinovart's many one-person shows were held in Spain and in Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas; however, some of the exceptions included the Martha Jackson Gallery in NY City (1979), one of the pioneer venues for modernism in the U.S., The Art Package (Chicago, 1976 && 1978), Galerie de la Seine (Paris, 1971), the Fondation Miró (Barcelona, 1979), the Venice Biennale (1982); Galeria Joasn Prats (NY, 1984 and 1987), Galerie Pierre Herbert (Geneva, 1985), and a retrospective at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island (1987). His work has also been shown in group shows such as the Milan Triennale (1959), the Biennalea of Alexandria, Sao Paolo, Venice (1958, 1962, 1976, and 1982), and he was included in surveys of current Spanish painting in a tour of various European cities, in "Contrasts of Spanish paintings" in various cities in Japan and the U.S. (1961), "Current Spanish Painting" (various cities in Europe, 1968-69), the Salon des Realities Nouvelles (Paris, 1969), the Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico, 1973), Museo de Arte Moderno (Caracas, 1978), the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (Caracas, 1983) and the Centre d'Etudes Catalanes (Paris, 1983). Of the many books and museum catalogs about him, we only own three: Daniel Giralt-Miracle (Guinovart: La Froca del Llenguatge Plastic (Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, c. 1979); texts in Catalan, Spanish, French, and English plus about 100 pages of illustrations, most in color), J. Corredor-Matheos, Guinovart: el arte en libertad (Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1981: a massive 360+ page heavily-illustrated large-format book in book in Catalan), and Eleanor Flomenhaft, The World of Josep Guinovart (Hempstead: Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, 1987). There is an informative obituary published in The Guardian in 2008 available on line.

Josep Guinovart (Spain, 1927-2007), G-C-2. mixed media on paper, signed lower and dated 85. The work features a very 3-dimensional surface filled with dots of vrying colors that tease the eye into following al over the surface. Image size: 730x509mm (28-3/4x20 inches). Mat size: 36x28 inches. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Josep Guinovart (Spain, 1927-2007), Homage to Joan Prats I. Original color lithograph, 1979. 100 signed & numbered impressions on Guarro paper; published by Galeria Joan Prats, a close friend and an early supporter of Joan Miró, who founded a gallery in Barcelona to show the works of Catalan artists and intersting modernist artist from other countries. Galeria Joan Prats quicklybecame one of the places for an artist to show his or her works. Image size: 560x760mm (22x29-7/8 inches). Mat size: 28x36inches. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Josep Guinovart (Spain, 1927-2007), Nura. Original hand-painted lithograph, 1982. 75 signed and numbered Impressions on Guarro paper published by Galeria Joan Prats, a close friend and an early supporter of Joan Miró, who founded a gallery in Barcelona to show the works of Catalan artists and intersting modernist artist from other countries, 1982. Our impression is n. 17/75. Image size: 380x560mm (14-15/16x22 inches). Mat size: 20x26 inches. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Josep Guinovart (Spain, 1927-2007), Joc a terra. Original hand-painted lithograph, 1982. 75 signed and numbered Impressions on Guarro paper published by Galeria Joan Prats, a close friend and an early supporter of Joan Miró, who founded a gallery in Barcelona to show the works of Catalan artists and intersting modernist artist from other countries, 1982. Our impression is n. 17/75. Image size: 380x560mm (14-15/16x22 inches). Mat size: 20x26 inches. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Josep Guinovart (Spain, 1927-2007), Composition for El Punt. Original hand-painted linocut, 1966. One of Guinovrt's earliest prints, published in the portfolio El Punt. The edition ws printed in 150 unnumbered ipmressions, signed lowe left adn dtate "66." Image size: 290x292mm (11-3/8x11-1/2 inches). Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

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