JOSÉ MARÍA DE LABRA SUAZO

José María de Labra studied architecture and trade although very soon there appeared the first artistic attempts with the figurative touches that promptly turned into the geometric abstraction. Those new experimentations represented a personal search through the painting and the sculpture. Just like many artists of his generation, the attraction for the abstraction became evident in the mixture of different materials and the examination of new concepts of space and movement.

Feminine Nude

In 1942 he got the First Prize of the Second Exhibition of Art of the SEU and in 1947 he enrolled into the School of Rine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, which he finished three years later.

José María de Labra displayed his work in Coruña in 1953, two years later – in the Ateneo in Madrid. In 1956 he was awarded the French Prize Perotti for the best work on religious theme in the XXVIII Biennial in Venice.

José María de Labra took part in different collective exhibitions, that were both national and international, and got numerous prizes like the Uruguay Prize in the III Hispano-American Biennial and the Great Prize in the III International Festival in Cagnes-Sur-Mer.

En 1989 Martín Alia published his doctoral thesis on Analyses and Worth of José María de Labra’s work. Among the best representations of his work we should foreground the Caixanova Collection with dozen of pieces, among which the most outstanding is the sculpture Lyre made of steel and methacrylate.

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