The Spaniards living in Paris Exhibition

In March 1929, the Residencia de Estudiantes organised the Exposición de pinturas y esculturas de españoles residentes en París (Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by spanish artist living in París) in Madrid’s Botanical Gardens through its Sociedad de Cursos y Conferencias. According to its leaflet, the exhibition aimed to directly study the works of Spanish artists living in the French capital.

Amongst the participating artists were painters Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, Francisco Bores, Pancho Cossío, Juan Gris, Ismael de la Serna, Joan Miró, Alfonso Olivares, Joaquín Peinado, Pablo Picasso, Pere Pruna, José María Ucelai, Hernando Viñes and Gabriela Pastor, who is relatively unknown today, as well as sculptors Apelles Fenosa, Pablo Gargallo and Manolo Hugué. Complimenting this list of artists, the addition of works by Benjamín Palancia, Salvador Dalí and the sculptor Alberto Sánchez, who were residents in Spain and not in France, was justified “by the intimate ideological, technical, even fraternal relationship between them”.

Folleto de la Exposición de pinturas y esculturas de españoles residentes en París organizada por la Sociedad de Cursos y Conferencias en el Jardín Botánico de Madrid del 20 al 25 de marzo de 1929. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid.