biografía de Pierre Francis DAURA (1896-1976)

Lugar de nacimiento: Minorca, Spain

Lugar de defunción: Rockbridge Baths, VA

Direcciones: Barcelona, Spain, 1896-1914; Paris, France, 1914-1917, 1920-1930; France, 1930-1939; Virginia, USA

Profesión: Painter, sculptor, engraver

Estudios: Barcelona School of FA, with Jose Ruiz Blasco (father of Picasso), Joseph Calvo; with Emile Bernard, Andre Lambert in Paris, France

Exposiciones: Salon D'Automne, Paris, 1922, 1926; Galérie Réné Zivy, Paris, 1927 (solo), 1929 (solo); Galerie Marck, Paris, 1928 (group, Les Cinq Refusés"); Galerie 23, Paris, 1930 (group "Cercle et Carré"); Monestir de Montserrat, Spain, 1931 (St. Cecilia Prize); Exposicio de Primavera, Barcelona, 1932-34; Galerie Vecht, Amsterdam, 1933; Musée de Cahors, France, 1932 (solo); Sala Barcino, Barcelona, 1933 (solo); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, 1941 (solo); VMFA, 1942 (with Jean Hélion), 1944-46, 1948, 1949, 1951; PAFA, 1945, 1947; Philadelphia Print Club, 1945; Lynchburg Art Center, Lynchburg, VA, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1978; Roanoke FA Center, VA, 1957, 1962, 1967; Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, VA, 1990 (solo), 1995 (solo); French Embassy, Washington, DC, 1996 (retrospective); Museu Diocesa Ciutadella de Menorca, 1996 (opening of Sala Daura), and many others in the U.S., Spain and France. "

Asociaciones: Cercle Et Carré Group, Paris, 1929-30; Agrupacio D'Artistes Catalans, 1918-1933

Obra: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and Museu d'Art Contemporani, both in Barcelona; Museu de Montserrat; Museu Diocesa de Menorca, all in Spain; Centre George Pompidou, Paris, MusÈe Hyacinthe Rigaud, Perpignan; MusÈes de Toulouse; MusÈe du Vieux Figeac, all France; Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, VA; VMFA; San Antonio Museum of Art, all in the USA

Comentarios: Preferred media: oil, watercolor, pen & ink, wood, stone & metal. Positions: Hd. of art dept., Lynchburg College, VA, 1945-46; prof. of art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1946-53. Illus., The Wedding Ring, This Side of Land, The Painter of La Popie, all by E. Hollister Frost; illus., auth., De Commoratione in Insula Menorca, 1924. He formed the group Cercle et CarrÈ" with his friends Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Michel Seuphor in 1929. The group promoted geometric construction and abstraction as opposed to Surrealism and included Arp, HÈlion, Kandinsky, Leger, Mondrian and others. Also known as Pedro (Pere) Francisco Daura y Garcia.

Fuentes: Inf. courtesy of Martha R. Daura, and Daura Gallery at Lynchburg College, VA. "

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