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Barbasán Lagueruel
(Zaragoza 1864 - id, 1924.). Painter trained as an artist at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos of Valencia, where he enrolled in 1880, maintaining a close relationship with their classmates Joaquin Sorolla y Salvador Abril. In 1887 he moved to Madrid and produced his first works, small paintings of theatrical and historical genre set in Toledo. In 1889 he obtained a pension from the Delegation of Saragossa to complete his artistic training at the Spanish Academy in Rome, deciding to settle permanently in Italy. He opened his studio in Rome, but for long periods annual work places of the Roman countryside as Subiaco and Anticoli Corrado.
His painting acquired an early spread across Europe thanks to the intervention of British and German dealers, as well as their repeated exposure in Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Montevideo, where he moved in 1912 to make two solo exhibitions at the Fine Arts . However, his work was little known in Spain as safe an early participation in the National Exhibition of 1887, it will no longer expose until his final return to Zaragoza, where he celebrated in 1923, a retrospective exhibition at the trade center, and another, posthumously, in 1925 at the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, followed in subsequent years, other retrospective, organized by his son Mariano Barbaso Lucaferri. His health had broken Barbasán returned to Zaragoza in 1921, and was received with praise and named Academy of Fine Arts in San Luis Search voice .... Apart from the obligatory pieces of history painting as a pensioner, cultivated exclusively gender manners inspired by the natural Italian villages, collecting in the compositions bucolic landscape and picturesque aspects of everyday life, not without sometimes humor. His style stands out for its colorful splendor and sensitive light, achieved through a technique abbreviated brushstrokes and touches of color, style derived from Fortuny and macchiaiuoli and Italian Pre-Impressionists.
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