Jesús de Vilallonga (Santa Coloma de Farners, 1927–Barcelona, 2018) is one the best kept secrets of Catalan painting from the second half of the twentieth century. He trains at Ramon Rogent’s studio, where he meets Joan Ponç, and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Marcel Gromaire. He moves to Quebec in 1954 and is contracted by the Dominion Gallery in Montreal, with whom he works for the subsequent thirty years. So, most of his artwork is made and his most important commissions are gained in Canada.
His artwork is a very personal synthesis of diverse currents such as surrealism, symbolism and mannerism, with which he reworks a lyrical figuration with a...
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