Celso Lagar Arroyo - Artist Info

About Celso Lagar Arroyo

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    Celso Lagar Arroyo (Ciudad Rodrigo, 1891 - Seville, 1966) was a Spanish expressionist painter of the first generation of the School of Paris, where he lived most of his life. He was influenced by vanguard movements of all kinds, such as Cubism and Fovismo. He painted mostly landscapes and still life. From a personal point of view, he was a depressed person and completely dependent on his wife, the French sculptor Hortense Begué.

    From his native city Rodrigo, he went to Madrid to be part of the workshop of one of the best sculptors of the moment, Miguel Blay. During 1910 and 1911, he visited Barcelona. Later he studied sculpture in Paris in 1911 advised by Blay, where he met Joseph Bernard, his friend Amedeo Modiglia...

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