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Jose Galvan

Paris, France
Artist (Painting)
Born unknown date

BIOGRAPHY of GALVAN José - painter in MONTMARTRE
Workshop: 31, rue Gabrielle - PARIS 18th

GALVAN José - born July 30, 1910 in ASPE (Province of ALICANTE - Spain) - died August 25, 2001 in BENIDORM (Spain).

At the age of 19, he went to live in ALCOY (Spain) and worked in an industrial school where he designed copies. There, his Professors notice his work and direct him to the " drawing from nature ". After the civil war, he took evening classes in BARCELONA (REAL CIRCULO ARTISTICO school). He then painted live models. He exhibited nudes, portraits and landscapes in BARCELONA, PERPIGNAN (1959-1960) and MONTPELLIER. GALVAN moved to the hill MONTMARTRE in PARIS in 1962 and exhibited at the Salon de l'Art libre. At the Grand Palais, he is present at the exhibition of Spanish painters in PARIS, organized by the Ministries of Culture of France and Spain.
In MONTMARTRE, he participated in the events of the 18th century Town Hall and showed his works in the parish hall of the Saint-Pierre church.

The biography of the Spanish painter José GALVAN appears in the DICTIONNAIRE DES PEINTRES A MONTMARTRE (1999) - Editions André ROUSSARD - 13, rue du Mont Cenis 75018 PARIS FRANCE.

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GALVAN José by Lucien VILAR,
Regional delegate of the Syndicate of Journalists and Writers in PERPIGNAN
(ALUTA - magazine of the Poets of Quercy and France - n° 66 - April-June 1960)


If, as Malesherbes said: " The extravagance is so general that it is no longer noticed " I feel (abundant in the sense of this author) all the more inclined to speak today of the work of an artist whose rising star will soon shine in the firmament of contemporary painting. If nowadays we hear serious fools proclaiming with perfect unconsciousness that such a painting (which one can examine in all directions without managing to know what it represents) is a masterpiece. Many people are continually fooled by the bass drum beats of advertising and seem unaware that weather vanes still occupy the tops of buildings.

This native painter of ASPE province of ALICANTE (Spain) made a long stay in MADRID: the riches contained in the Prado Museum were an illumination for him and the memory of the great masters pursues him during his travels in the Iberian Peninsula.

The art of J. GALVAN cannot be mixed with the pictorial rantings of certain aesthetes apprentice sorcerers. On the contrary, imbued with the noblest principles bequeathed to us by the greatest masters of antiquity, the painter GALVAN knew how to resist the ease that is appropriate for many daubers who qualify as...

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