Ángeles Santos Torroella

Àngeles Santos Torroella (November 7, 1911 – October 3, 2013) was a Catalan surrealist painter. Born in Portbou, Spain, she is the sister of the poet and art critic Rafael Santos Torroella. She married the painter Emili Grau Sala. Her son is the painter Julià Grau Santos. In 2005 she received the Creu de Sant Jordi.

Biography

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 (US) 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. She turned 100 in November 2011.

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 (Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia).

Exhibitions Works in museums

• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
• Museum of the Empordà, Figueres

Death

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