Ángeles Santos Torroella, 1927


Collection: Blommestein/Guntenaar

Creator:

She was born in Portbou (Girona) in 1911 into a family of painters and writers. She studied art in Valladolid with Cellino Perrotti. Her first exhibition was at the age of 16 in the Atheneum in Valladolid. She did not become known until 1929 when she presented her painting 'Un mundo' at the Autumn Salon of Madrid. In 1931 she exhibited in Paris, and in 1936 at the Venice Biennale. Her marriage to Emilio Grau in 1936 influenced her painting, but in the 1950s she gradually abandoned her artistic production. Among the collective exhibitions she took part in are 'Madrid-Barcelona 1930-1936. La tradición de los nuevos' (1997) ('Madrid-Barcelona 1930-1936: the tradition of the new'), which examined the avant-garde art of the II Republic, and 'Istmos: Vanguardias españolas 1915-1936' (1998) ('Isthmuses: the Spanish avant-garde'), both in Madrid. She died in Madrid in 2013.