Artist: Antonio Saura (1930 - 1998)
Nationality: Spanish
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting, Printmaking
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Biography:
Spanish painter, printmaker, and draughtsman, Antonio Saura was a self-taught artist. While suffering from an extensive illness in 1947, he occupied time painting and studying. Saura lived in Paris from 1953 to 1955 and painted in the Surrealist style. After his return to Spain, he adopted a harsh expressive style of painting and focused on protesting the Franco regime.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Artist: Antonio Saura Title: Maja Date: 1957 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.63-3/4 x W.51-1/4
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Antonio Saura, untitled, plate on pp. 32-33 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Antonio Saura - Maja 1957 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Antonio Montauti, Antonio Magliabechi, 17th - 18th century
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Antonio Frasconi, See Again, Say Again by Antonio Frasconi (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1964]), 1964
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Antonio Tempesta, The Entry of Alexander into Babylon, after Antonio Tempesta, 16th - 17th century
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Antonio Tempesta, Roman Battle Scene, after Antonio Tempesta (?), 16th - 17th century
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Antonio Frasconi, A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi/Weyhe Gallery March 27 - April 30, 1954, 20th century
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Antonio Frasconi, The Snow and the Sun /La Nieve y el Sol, translated by Antonio Frasconi (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1961]), 1961
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Antonio Frasconi, See and Sayä, A Picture Book in Four Languages by Antonio Frasconi (New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955]), 1955
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Francisco de Goya - Don Antonio Noriega 1801 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, Hercules and Antaeus, after Giovanni Antonio da Brescia"s engraving after Mantegna, circa 18 - 19th century
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Federico Brandani - Antonio Galli n.d. bronze The Frick Collection Italian
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Antonio Visentini, Piazza San Marco, looking towards S. Geminiano; pl.11 from Part III of the series Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores Ex Antonio Canal..., 1735
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Antonio Frasconi, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi, catalogue cover for Smithsonian Institution Traveling Service 1953-1954, 20th century
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Ipolito Salazar, ILMO. Sr.Dr.JOS… ANTONIO ZUBIRIA,/ Obispo de Durango (Most Illustrious Sir and Doctor JosÈ Antonio Zubiria, Bishop of Durango, 19th century
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Antonio Frasconi, Alhambra VII, 1962
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Antonio Frasconi, Pablo (his son), 1950
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (standing man), and second image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (young man), and fifth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, The Victor, 1962
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Francisco de Goya - Don Juan Antonio Cuervo 1819 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (grasses), and first image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (young man), and fifth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (standing man), and second image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (Whitman as an old man), seventeenth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (grasses), and first image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (Whitman as an old man), seventeenth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Týpies, Number 22, 1962
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (head), and seventh image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (bunch of flowers), and third image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (standing man), and eighth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (oval portrait), and ninth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (head), and seventh image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (bunch of flowers), and third image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (standing man), and eighth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (oval portrait), and ninth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]), 1960
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Antonio Frasconi, Summer pasture, 1955
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Francisco Antonio Melendez, The Annunciation, 1710

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (3)
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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: From Picasso to Tàpies: Spanish 20th Century Art from the Reina Sofia
Spanish artists working in the period before 1945 exercised a major influence on artistic developments in the twentieth century. They were in the vanguard of the changes taking place in the art world, in style, in professional attitudes and in the...
Fundacao Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva: Picasso: Homage to the bullfighter
Picasso sought the explanation of life and death in Dominguin’s art of bullfighting. A huge number of projects emerged from the friendship between the painter and the bullfighter, among them were projects for bull rings, books and many ideas on bu...
Sprengel Museum: Cloudcatcher: Horst Antes and the Shift in Painting during the 1960s
Antes developed his figure in the post-war years, a period in which abstraction had been largely accepted as the international art idiom. While the figurative was being vigorously purged from the picture, Antes worked obsessively...

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