{"title":"Claudio Bravo","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Tangier has an absolute Mediterranean light.” A master of hyperrealism, Claudio Bravo lived for almost forty years in Morocco, whose light and landscapes shaped the second half of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCareer\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Valparaíso, Chile, on 8 November 1936, Claudio Bravo trained with the painter Miguel Venegas Cifuentes, his only academic teaching, and exhibited in Santiago at seventeen. A sought-after portraitist in Madrid in the 1960s, he painted Manila’s high society in 1968 and moved to New York in 1969. In 1972 he chose Tangier for its light and climate and bought a house in the medina; a winter residence in Marrakech followed, then a house north of Taroudant, where he died on 4 June 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe real, sublimated\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeir to Velázquez, Zurbarán and the Spanish still lifes of the Golden Age, Bravo pushed realism to trompe-l’œil and Caravaggesque chiaroscuro. Still lifes, portraits and his famous “packages”, wrapped fabric and paper rendered with dizzying precision, make up a body of work in which the humblest object takes on an almost metaphysical presence. In Morocco his models were the men around him, and its landscapes, he wrote, had “something biblical”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1954 — First exhibition, Salón 13, Santiago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1963 — First exhibition in Spain, Galería Fortuny, Madrid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1970 — First New York exhibition, Staempfli Gallery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1972 — Settles in Tangier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2000 — Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise, Spain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2004 — “Claudio Bravo et le Maroc”, Institut du monde arabe, Paris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2011 — Dies in Taroudant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCollections\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuseum of Modern Art, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhiladelphia Museum of Art\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuseum Ludwig, Cologne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuseo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDo you own a work by Claudio Bravo?\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gallery can examine it: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/estimation\"\u003erequest a valuation\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/revente\"\u003econsign it for sale\u003c\/a\u003e at ARTWORKS in Casablanca. The authenticity of every work is checked before it is offered for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eIn the same spirit\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover works by \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/khalid-mohamed-el-karkouri\"\u003eKhalid Mohamed El Karkouri\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/mohamed-jaamati\"\u003eMohamed Jaamati\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/mohamed-toumi\"\u003eMohamed Toumi\u003c\/a\u003e, or browse \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/art-for-sale-in-morocco\"\u003eall Moroccan paintings for sale\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/2088\/0442\/collections\/Claudio-Bravo-peintre.jpg?v=1689955060","url":"https:\/\/moroccanpaintings.com\/en\/collections\/claudio-bravo.oembed","provider":"Moroccan Paintings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}