JACINTO SALVADÓ

His artistic manner roots in noucentisme and in his appreciation of classics. He studied at Lonja de Barcelona and in 1909 made his first journey to Paris. A bit later he spent 5 years in Marseilles, where he attended classes in the School of Fine Arts, and in 1919 returned to Paris.  He got acquainted with Derain, Picasso, Torres-García, Julio González, Bourdelle, Lipchitz, Zadkine, Auguste Herbin and others and visited the most avant-garde exhibitions of the city.

In 1921 he travels to Barcelona to exhibit his works in the Galerías Dalmau. Two years later he was working for the Paris-Journal newspaper, choosing illustrations for the art criticism columns and in 1924 signed a contract with Galerías Printemps to decorate shop-windows. His first individual exhibition in Paris was held in the Galería Bing (1927), and he was highly praised by the critics. In 1929 he displayed his works in the same gallery again, and in 1931 and 1936 – in Worms-Billiet.

His works belong to different styles, like classicism, expressionism or surrealism and abstractionism.  In the thirties and partly in forties he began to blend figuration with geometrical abstraction. But the most important were the World War II years, as his life in Zurich allowed him to find his own style, thanks to the Grupo Allianz and the Galeria des Eaux-Vives.

During the after-war period he was a member of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. His style gets closer to informalism with the geometrical trends dominating over the rectilinear. Seventies can be said to be the last stage of his life and artistic development, when the shift to the plain geometrical forms and intense colours became obvious.