Antonio Saura developed an aggressive black-and-white figurative language of heads, crucifixions, women and historical quotations. A founder of El Paso, he used gestural abstraction to keep the human figure under extreme pressure.
Painting; drawing
Major Works
- 1959Crucifixion
- 1960sImaginary Portrait of Goya
- 1950s–60sBrigitte Bardot series
- 1950sLadies series
- 1959 onwardCrowds
- 1983Dora Maar
- 1980sDog of Goya
- 1950sHead
- 1959Sudario
- 1960sSelf-Portrait
Interviews & Writing
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