Viva Genovés!

Juan Genovés passed away in the early morning of May 15th 2020.

Some of his works can be seen on the Benlliure gallery’s website, where he recently exhibited:

http://www.galeriabenlliure.com/new/exposicion_actual.asp?artista=86KVC

Juan Genovés paintings are easily recognisable; multiple tiny blobs of paint representing crowds of people, somewhat similar to the style of the English artist, L.S. Lowry.

He was born in 1930 in Valencia, and grew up during the Civil War and the regime of the dictator Franco. He didn’t like it.

In 1976, he painted El Abrazo (The Embrace), a symbolic protest against Franco’s political prisoners. 500,000 posters of the painting were hung throughout Spain and Genovés was arrested and briefly imprisoned. The painting is now housed in Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

Genovés exhibited in the Marlborough Gallery in New York in October 2018.