Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell (Olot, 1932 - Girona, 2001). "Urban view of Paris". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Size: 75 x 60 cm; 87 x 65 cm (frame).

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JOSEP MARIA VAYREDA CANADELL (Olot, 1932 - Girona, 2001). "Urban view of Paris". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Size: 75 x 60 cm; 87 x 65 cm (frame). Josep Maria Vayreda was born into a family closely linked to art. His great-uncle Joaquim Vayreda was the founder of the landscape school of Olot, and his uncle Mariá Vayreda was a painter and writer. Despite his close ties to the Olot school, Vayreda Canadell never followed its aesthetic premises, but was inclined towards a very personal realism. He developed his training at the School of Fine Arts of this city, and already in his academic stage he began a process of simplification of figurative elements. Later he entered the world of abstraction and informalism, to return to figuration in 1958, not as a break with the previous stage but as a synthesis: his is a structured figuration based on an arrangement of geometric shapes. In his paintings he captured his personal vision of the world, both of the cities (from Olot to New York), as well as terraces, interiors of cafés... Landscapes, rural or urban, figures and still lifes constitute his thematic repertoire.