Lluís Morató i Guerrero. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Theatrical character. 32 cm x 21 cm. Signed "Morato". With information about the stage performance ("The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare) and the character (Salarino).
Lluis Morato and Guerrero (Barcelona 1903-1963) Painter and draftsman, portraitist and cartoonist. His father was the journalist Josep Morató. With only eleven he exhibited at the Comedians Salon organized by cartoonist Grau Miró. He studied with Francesc Ignasi Mallol and A.Galí, formed in the nineteenth-century aesthetics. After the death of his father, he moved to New York where he collaborated with the Catalan Nationalist Center in New York and which coincided with the painter Joaquim Torres-Garcia and Rafael Sala. Back in Barcelona, his first exhibition was in the Robert Sala. He participated in many of the Spring Exhibition Hall of Montjuic and helped the maintenance of said salted being a member of its Board. After the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in February 1939. Returning to Spain via Irun, he was imprisoned in the concentration camp of Burgos. Between 1931 and 1961 he exhibited his work in Barcelona and promptly preferably in Palma, Toulouse and Madrid. In 1942 and 1944 he participated in the National Exhibition calls with some drawings and gouaches, In 1952 he received the Sant Jordi Prize and in 1954 the City of Fine Arts and the Royal Artistic Circle. Specialist portrait figures and both oil and ink, pencil lead and coal, he developed an original style in the thirties of the twentieth century, but it was removed the main currents in after the war. He mittee also rightly caricature and which were famous theses made of the most important figures of Barcelona's art world both scenic as plastic.