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Mariano Tur de Montis
Ibiza woman Spain spanish oil on canvas painting portrait

c.1980

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Frame size 83x73 cm. Mariano Tur de Montis (Ibiza 1904 -1994). Son of the Ibizan general Don Juan Tur y Palau, of an old patrician family on the island, and of Doña Cristina de Montis and von der Klee. Ibiza painter who felt great admiration for the Spanish classics and the influence of Central European painting of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and especially that of the painter Manuel Benedito. He received multiple praises in his various artistic exhibitions not only in Ibiza, but also in Palma de Mallorca, Mahón, Barcelona, ​​Madrid and in European capitals such as London or Paris. When he was only fifteen, he decided to go to meet Sorolla - when he was painting "The Smugglers" in the vicinity of his family mansion - to find out what opinion he deserved on the first portrait he had made of his mother. A few years later, and undoubtedly encouraged by the praiseworthy response received, he was already successfully overcoming the successive sieves of artistic criticism, until he stood out with the “subtle and aristocratic” style that characterized him, in such relevant competitions as the National Exhibition de Bellas Artes or at the Paris Salon. Delving into his biography it is possible to recognize the main factors that would converge in this rapid and justified progression: the very cultural and artistic environment that surrounded him since his birth. The specific preparation with which his refined mother channeled his innate qualities and marked sensitivity. As well as, and above all, his own need to create beauty. Despite a brilliant degree in Law, he attended the Sant Jordi Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona, ​​complementing his training in Rome, Florence and Paris. At the early date of 1925, the local press was pleased to transcribe the reviews of his exhibition in the Galerías Layetanas of Barcelona, ​​and in which the acquisition of one of his works "Frivolities" for the Museum of Art took place. Modern of Palermo (Sicily). After participating in 1926 in the Autumn Salon of Palma de Mallorca, together with Narcís Puget Viñas, and in 1929 in the Permanent Exhibition of Levante Art, one of his emblematic satisfactions would arrive: the praises that King Alfonso XIII himself dedicated to the stop before his painting Céfora, a painting in which his sister Guadalupe Tur de Montis was the model, during the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, held in Madrid. Oil that also deserved attention in the prestigious magazine La Esfera, which dedicated the cover of its number 20 of July 5, 1930, or the French magazine La Revue Moderne. In the magazine Arte y Hogar- in its number 56, the Marqués de Lozoya Director General of Fine Arts wrote a nice eulogy of the painter and his work in the photographic report dedicated to the beautiful and elegant Casa de los Tur de Ibiza. It was precisely in 1930, when Tur de Montis began to interact amicably and professionally, with a select group of painters, both Spanish (Pla, Rigoberto Soler, Amadeo Roca and Laureano Barrau) and foreigners (Bruno Beran and the Hungarian painter Philip Lászó and Josef Sperber), which would have a favorable impact on his social, cultural and artistic life in America. He did not renounce the male portrait (as can be seen in the portrait dedicated to his uncle, Bartolomé de Roselló or the one dedicated to the tenor Federico de Lavilla), it was those of the female sex and corresponding to the bourgeoisie and high society, who ideally they served to express the delicate principles of his painting. Bruno Beran, once defined him as the painter of elegance or the refined gestures that characterized them "with a delicious abandonment of decadent sadness" in the words of 'M. F. Massanet. If his cultural level and command of six languages ​​were other of the conditions that opened him to all the changes and aesthetic horizons that opened the doors of contemporary art, his belonging to a wealthy family also provided him with the simultaneous experience of the urban and the urban. rural. For this reason it was common for his portraits of sophisticated ladies of high society to be exhibited along with those of those other ladies from the Ibizan countryside. For the former he knew how to reflect the delicacy of the fabrics that wrapped them, for these others he took pride in capturing the silver and coral or gold jewels that, with a more marked and ostentatious popular flavor, enriched their gala dresses. His favorite models were his sister Guadalupe and a young peasant woman from Formentera who worked in Ibiza of whom we only know her name, Carmen. During his stay in Barcelona, ​​he also painted many portraits of the Catalan bourgeoisie and, as an anecdote, remember the two wonderful paintings that he painted of the American millionaire Mary Delver in exchange for an imposing polar bear skin. In the 70s he would combine the portrait with the pictures of flowers, being able to be seen loaded with cynias, sunflowers, gladioli, climbing the steep slopes of the walled city. This conjunction of the urban and the popular reflected in his painting, constitutes a sample of the eclectic spirit with which, fundamentally from the 40s to the 60s, he developed another facet of his personality: that of increasing family patrimony with the acquisition of works of art and other diverse pieces, until turning his manor residence on Calle Pedro Tur 3, into a select museum that is almost a must-see for all the personalities (Soraya de Persia, María Callas, Errol Flynn, Camilo José Cela…) who visited the island. The house, dating from the seventeenth century, is currently the headquarters of the Official College of Architects of Ibiza and Formentera. Years later, he would break his previous molds and, infected by the spirit of freedom that was breathed on the island, he would modify the decoration of his House-palace. He spent the final years of his life in Barcelona, ​​in the care of his niece Guadalupe Llobet and Tur de Montis, but he wanted to die on the island, passing away on June 27, 1994. The Ibiza Town Council dedicated a street in Dalt Vila to him, close to the house where he was born: the emblazoned Casa Balanzat or La Portella, very close to the cathedral. In 2012 a retrospective exhibition was held under the title “Portraits. Mariano Tur de Montis ”, in the“ Sa Nostra ”Culture Room, organized by his nephew Luís Llobet and Tur de Montis and Rafael Gil Salinas. Other jobs outside the main job should be described in the "Personal life" section.
  • Creator:
    Mariano Tur de Montis (1904 - 1994, Spanish)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1980
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 25.99 in (66 cm)Width: 22.05 in (56 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Barcelona, ES
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU115528347782
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