Smith, Ismael (1886-1972)

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A draughtsman, illustrator, engraver, former bookseller, decorator, sculptor and painter, considered by the critic Eugenio d’Ors to be one of the promising young artists of the noucentista movement in the first decade of the 20th century. His work is situated between a modernism of Franco-Belgian roots with echoes of the Englishman Aubrey Beardsley, and evolves towards an expressionism of marked sexual ambiguity and singular personality. Trained in Barcelona, he obtained a grant to travel to Paris, where he began to work on decorative projects, broadening his culture and contacts. The outbreak of the First World War brought him back to Barcelona, but he soon lost the prominence he had enjoyed, coinciding with the rise of Noucentisme. In 1919 the dandy Smith began a new period in the United States and, although he tried in vain to make a triumphant return to Barcelona in 1929, he remained in New York until his last days.

Ismael Smith’s exhibition in our gallery

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