Ángeles Santos Torroella


Àngeles Santos Torroella was a Catalan Spanish surrealist painter. Born in Portbou, Catalonia, she was the sister of the poet and art critic Rafael Santos Torroella. She married the painter Emilio Grau Sala. Her son is the painter :ca:Julià Grau i Santos. In 2005 she received the Creu de Sant Jordi.

Biography

In 1929 Santos Torroella presented her work Un Mundo at the autumn salon in Madrid. The next year she was given her own room at the exhibition. In 1931 she presented a solo exhibition in Paris. In 1932 she participated in the Iberian Artists Collective in Copenhagen and Paris. In 1933 she was invited to the exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and on 1936 she figured of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She was presented in Barcelona for the first time in 1935 at Syra Galleries.
In 1936, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Santos Torroella and her husband fled Spain for France. She returned to Spain by herself in 1937. The couple reunited in 1962.

Work

Her work, decanted into Post-Impressionism, is preferably landscape and interiors. Her most important painting is a world of large format oil represents a strange surreal world.

Works in museums

Torroella died on 3 October 2013, at the age of 101.