Technic: Oil on wood

Parisian views I

A popular painter, the press dubbed him the peintre de la rue. Paris City Council awarded him the honorary title of peintre de la ville de Paris with a pass allowing him to set up his easel anywhere in the city, including on the balconies of official buildings.

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Green Valira river banks in Canillo

Rafael Benet worked as a painter, critic and art historian. He began his training in Terrassa with his uncle, the modernist painter Joaquím Vancells, at the art school of Francesc d’Assís Galí, and also at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, where he was president from 1928 to 1930. As an art historian, he carried […]

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