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Enrique SERRA Y AUQUE
Barcelona, 1859 - Rome, 1918
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left “ENRIQUE SERRA”
40 x 33 cm (45 x 38 cm with frame)
Enrique Serra Auqué studied painting at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts with Ramón Martí Alsina and Domènec Talarn. He continued his studies in Rome in 1879 with Mariano Fortuny at the Chigi academy. Enrique Serra achieves his first successes in Rome. He also received a gold medal at the 1888 Universal Exhibition in Barcelona. He also traveled to Paris where he settled in 1895 and opened a workshop. Enrique Serra Auqué exhibited both in Paris and in Barcelona at Sala Parés.
Our painting is characteristic of its genre scenes with pretty young girls in seductive poses. Our painting is particularly reminiscent of a work that went on sale in October 2011 at Sotheby's New York, an “Orange Seller” holding the same ravishing pose, her head resting lightly on her right hand.
Serra Auqué's works are preserved in particular at the National Art Museum of Catalonia and at the Víctor-Balaguer Museum Library in Vilanova i la Geltrú in Catalonia.
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