Benjamin Palencia Perez - Artist Info

About Benjamin Palencia Perez

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Benjamin Palencia
  • Biography

    Benjamín Palencia (7 July 1894 - 16 January 1980) was a Spanish painter and draftsman from Barrax, Albacete. Most notably he became known as co-founder of the School of Vallecas (together with sculptor Alberto Sánchez. The quintessence of the large body of his work is perhaps the poetry of the Castilian landscape as defined by the Generation of '98.

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    "Benjamin Palencia," Wikipedia, Feb., 2018

    Benjamín Palencia gives his works on paper a character that is almost completely independent from his paintings, to the extent that sometimes they almost come into conflict with each other. However, paradoxically the drawings also provide a suitable complement for the paintings, anticipating them in certain cases and...

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