Rafael Durancamps

LOT 188 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION RAFAEL DURANCAMPS SPANISH, 1891 - 1979 SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL 12,000—18,000 GBP measurements 130 by 88cm., 51¼ by 34½in. signed Durancamps lower right oil on canvas PROVENANCE Acquired by the family of the present owner circa 1994 LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Francesc Miralles, Durancamps, Sabadell, 1991, p. 306,catalogued & illustrated in colour

LOT 264 RAFAEL DURANCAMPS SPANISH, 1891-1979 CAPEA (BULLFIGHT) 10,000—15,000 GBP MEASUREMENTS 50 by 65cm.; 19¾ by 25½in. DESCRIPTION signed l.l.: Durancamps oil on canvas PROVENANCE Sale: Subastas Broc, Barcelona, 28 May 1980 Purchased by the present owner at the above sale

Rafael Durancamps (Spanish, 1891-1979)
Mercadillo (The market)
Add. Notes: signed 'Durancamps' (lower right) pastel and pencil on paper 14 x 17 1/8 in. (35.5 x 43.5 cm.)
Notes: Emil Krausz studied painting in at the Vienna Academy, and later under Alexander Archipenko, in Berlin. He travelled extensively, settling in Sicily for most of the period from 1923-1929, before moving to Paris in 1930. Krausz remained in close touch with cultural developments in his home country and, in 1925, the year the present work was painted, he joined the Secessionist movement in Graz. Echoing the avantgarde beliefs of its counterpart in Vienna, which had been founded at the turn of the century under the presidency of Gustav Klimt, the Graz Secessionists expressed their modern ideals in a flat, and highly geometric style, which defined itself in opposition to the grandiose and elaborate aesthetic of late 19th century Vienna.
Pre-lot Text: The Property of a Private European Collection

catalogue note primarily a painter of the spanish landscape, durancamps scenes of bull fights are extremely rare and consequently very sought after. using the rich flat colours for which he is well known, durancamps mixes his deep appreciation for the pageantry and passion of the corrida with his characteristically dramatic use of light and dark to create a scene of great dramatic tension. the action takes place in the unforgiving heat of the spanish sun, the intensity of which durancamps vividly conjures up in the present work through his use of dry hot ochres and browns, and the adoption of a high perspective to give a bird's eye view of the action. another of durancamps’’s prized bull fight scenes painted in 1933 is in the fundación durancamps in barcelona (fig. 1). fig. 1, rafael durancamps, capea en turégano, circa 1933, 81 by 100cm, fundación durancamps, barcelona signed durancamps l.l. oil on canvas

measurements 65 by 100 cm., 25 1/2 by 39 1/4 in. description signed and dated (maker's marks) signed material/medium oil on board exhibited london, grafton galleries, recent paintings by rafael durancamps, circa 1964, no. 33, illustrated in the catalogue catalogue note the authenticity of this work has been confirmed by sra. nuria durancamps de marsal, the artist's daughter