PERE CREIXAMS, (Barcelona, 1893-1965)
Reclining Woman
Oil on canvas
90x147 cm.
Private collection
The only son of a poor family, Pere Creixams was born on 9 November 1893 in Barcelona: «I come out of the pavement, the Mediterranean pavement...». In 1906, following the death of his father, he lived with his mother. He took on a series of odd jobs and later became a printer. In the evenings, he attended a mixed, secular school La Escuela Moderna founded in 1901 by the Catalan anarchist Francisco Ferrer, whose libertarian pedagogy had an enormous impact throughout Europe. Créixams said he had learned to read from «red and anarchist books».
Pere Créixams
CORRIDA À MADRID
Oil on canvas
81 x 60 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
BULLFIGHTING SCENE
Oil on canvas
37.5 x 46 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
Acclamation du torreo
Oil on canvas
38 x 55 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
La Cogida Del Picador
Oil on canvas
77 x 95.5 cm
Private collection
At the age of 17, his burgeoning passion for theatre led him to enter the conservatory of the great Liceu theatre in Barcelona. During a theatre tour, he met the French actor Lucien Guitry who advised him to go to Paris.
Pere Créixams
Gitanilla/ Little gypsy
Oil on canvas
67 x 53 cm
Private collection
Pedro Créixams Picó (Spanish, 1893–1965)
Famille de gitans, c. 1939
Oil on canvas laid on canvas
97.5 x 130.5 cm. (38.4 x 51.4 in.)
Private collection
Pere Creixams (Barcelona, 1893-1965)
Gitanos/ Gypsies
Oil on canvas
195 x 130 cm
Private collection
CREIXAMS PICO, PERE (1893 - 1965)
Sept gitans/ Seven gypsies
Oil on canvas
89 x 102 cm
Private collection
Pedro Créixams Picó (Spanish, 1893–1965)
La danseuse gitane devant la roulotte/ The gypsy dancer in front of the trailer
oil on canvasO
50 x 74 cm. (19.7 x 29.1 in.)
Private collection
Pere CREIXAMS PICO (1893-1965)
Le saltimbanque et son cheval/ The acrobat and his horse
Oil on canvas
92 × 73 cm
Private collection
He arrived in Paris in 1916 during a very unfavourable social and historical context. To describe this difficult daily life, as a purely self-taught artist, he started drawing, showing great mastery of line and perspective. He recounted that he had squatted at La Rotonde, a Parisian café in Montparnasse, a mecca of Parisian life, during the first months of his new life: «He ate, drank and slept there.» It was at this time that he met a young woman, Marie Lebourg, known as Madeleine, whom he would marry in 1919. He frequented the two «world» artistic centres of the time, Montparnasse and Montmartre.
To make a living, he returned to his job as a printer and started working for François Bernouard, at La Belle Édition in 1917. At this printing house, he met the writer Blaise Cendrars, with whom he became friends. He then joined the Union printing house where the second series of Soirées de Paris, a French literary and artistic review founded by Guillaume Apollinaire, and the main art reviews of the time were printed: Paul Guillaume's Les Arts à Paris, Florent Fels and Marcel Sauvage's Action, Léonce Rosenberg's Le Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne... . This enabled Créixams to introduce himself into the avant-garde literary and artistic circles of the time.
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He, a simple printer, developed his artistic vocation from these fabulous encounters. He would later confess in a press article: «When I left Barcelona, I was an ignoramus. That's how all my culture was built in Paris.»
On the advice of the painter Othon Friesz, he started painting and exhibited for the first time in 1921 at the Café du Parnasse and then at the Nude Exhibition at the Montaigne Gallery in Paris.
«VILAIN», a self-portrait with a blue scarf, is one of the two paintings Créixams exhibited at the Café du Parnasse. The influence of Modigliani in this self-portrait can be felt while already adding his own style with Catalan accents and tones.
Following his first exhibitions and the success he met, the famous Parisian art dealer Paul Guillaume noticed him and signed him a contract. Créixams' works were exhibited alongside those of André Derain, Pablo Picasso, Maurice de Vlaminck, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani. Four years later, Paul Guillaume broke the contract because Créixams was not producing enough. Thanks to Florent Fels, Créixams worked for the gallery owner Pierre Loeb, who exhibited works by Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Chaïm Soutine, Joan Miró, Jean Arp, Paul Klee, etc.
Pere Créixams
FIGURE, c. 1951
Oil on canvas
73,5 x 60,5 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
LES ANDALOUSES/ THE ANDALUSIANS
Oil on canvas
73 X 60 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
Couple espagnol/ Spanish couple, c. 1928
Oil on canvas
92 x 60 cm
Private collection
To make a living, he returned to his job as a printer and started working for François Bernouard, at La Belle Édition in 1917. At this printing house, he met the writer Blaise Cendrars, with whom he became friends. He then joined the Union printing house where the second series of Soirées de Paris, a French literary and artistic review founded by Guillaume Apollinaire, and the main art reviews of the time were printed: Paul Guillaume's Les Arts à Paris, Florent Fels and Marcel Sauvage's Action, Léonce Rosenberg's Le Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne... . This enabled Créixams to introduce himself into the avant-garde literary and artistic circles of the time.
Pedro CREIXAMS PICO (1893 - 1965)
FLAMENCO DANZAS
Oil on canvas
h: 114 w: 114 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
Les musiciens
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
Couple of Musicians
Oil on panel
56 x 38.5 cm
Private collection
Pere Creixams, Barcelona 1893 - 1965.
Músicos/ Musicians
Oil on canvas
46x33 cm
PERE CREIXAMS I PICÓ, (Barcelona, 1893-1965)
Le guitarristé endormí/ The sleeping guitarist, c. 1928
Oil on canvas
128x79,5 cm
Private collection
Florent Fels, a French journalist and art writer, was an important and unavoidable figure in this artistic milieu. This meeting led to a true friendship and Fels remained a faithful supporter throughout the life of Créixams.
Créixams recounted this collaboration in a review of the newspaper Action which was considered as a breviary: «With a few friends, we created the newspaper Action, of which Florent Fels was the director and I printed it. We had Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, André Malraux, Raymond Radiguet, André Salmon, we were friends. Being friends meant something. I've never had such moments again... And we cooked with Amedeo Modigliani in the print shop.»
Pere Créixams
YOUNG ORIENTAL WOMAN
OIL ON CANVAS
36 1/4 by 28 3/4 in
Private collection
Créixams recounted this collaboration in a review of the newspaper Action which was considered as a breviary: «With a few friends, we created the newspaper Action, of which Florent Fels was the director and I printed it. We had Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, André Malraux, Raymond Radiguet, André Salmon, we were friends. Being friends meant something. I've never had such moments again... And we cooked with Amedeo Modigliani in the print shop.»
Pedro Créixams Picó (Spanish, 1893–1965)
MARDI GRAS
Oil on canvas
35 x 45.75 in. (88.9 x 116.2 cm.)
Private collection
He, a simple printer, developed his artistic vocation from these fabulous encounters. He would later confess in a press article: «When I left Barcelona, I was an ignoramus. That's how all my culture was built in Paris.»
On the advice of the painter Othon Friesz, he started painting and exhibited for the first time in 1921 at the Café du Parnasse and then at the Nude Exhibition at the Montaigne Gallery in Paris.
Pedro Créixams Picó (Spanish, 1893–1965)
Port en Normandie
Oil on canvas
65 x 81 cm. (25.6 x 31.9 in.)
Private collection
«VILAIN», a self-portrait with a blue scarf, is one of the two paintings Créixams exhibited at the Café du Parnasse. The influence of Modigliani in this self-portrait can be felt while already adding his own style with Catalan accents and tones.
Following his first exhibitions and the success he met, the famous Parisian art dealer Paul Guillaume noticed him and signed him a contract. Créixams' works were exhibited alongside those of André Derain, Pablo Picasso, Maurice de Vlaminck, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani. Four years later, Paul Guillaume broke the contract because Créixams was not producing enough. Thanks to Florent Fels, Créixams worked for the gallery owner Pierre Loeb, who exhibited works by Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Chaïm Soutine, Joan Miró, Jean Arp, Paul Klee, etc.
Pere Créixams
La Famille
Oil on canvas
90 x 71 cm.
Private collection
Pere Créixams
El paseo en familia/ The family passage
Oil on canvas
28 x 35 cm
Private collection
PERE CREIXAMS, (Barcelona, 1893-1965)
Maternity
Oil on canvas
65x53 cm.
Private collection
He left Montparnasse and his job as a printer for Montmartre but continued to go to Barcelona. His life is summed up in his dual identity as a Catalan and a Montmartrean. And quite naturally, he turned to his Spanish ancestors, El Greco and Goya, to affirm their artistic heritage. His works attract the eyes of great collectors such as Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Angela Rosengart, Oscar Ghez ....
And yet, this great artist, so representative of the inter-war period, is today unknown to the general public and not recognized on the art market. More on Pere Creixams
CREIXAMS Pedro 1893-1965
JEUNE FILLE NUE SUR LE LIT/ NAKED YOUNG GIRL ON BED
Oil on canvas
73 x 92
Private collection
PERE CRÉIXAMS, (Barcelona, 1893-1965)
Woman
Oil on canvas
115x90 cm.
Private collection
Pierre CREIXAMS (1893-1965
La Toilette
Oil on canvas
65 x 81 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
Woman nude
Oil on canvas
65 x 54 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
Akt kobiety/ Act of a woman
Oil on canvas
65 x 100 cm
Private collection
Pere Créixams
Nude
Oil on canvas
100.5 x 81.5 cm
Private collection
And yet, this great artist, so representative of the inter-war period, is today unknown to the general public and not recognized on the art market. More on Pere Creixams
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