Segrelles exhibition in Spain

Segrelles exhibition in Spain -

Lower is Segrelles Tom Thumb

an art museum in Valencia, Spain, opened an exhibition entitled "the Labyrinth of Fantasy "on the dreamlike paintings of Jose Segrelles (Spanish, 1885-1969-his name is sometimes written as" Josep Segrelles Albert ").

Segrelles worked as an illustrator for Illustrated London News, Cosmopolitan, redbook, Fortune, weekly US and New York Times . He lived in New York between 1929 and 1935.

The exhibition presents more than a hundred watercolors, oils and images in pen and ink, as well as copies of magazines and books in his illustrations appeared whichis.

Lower is Segrelles illustration of Wagner

Many of his paintings evoke the mysterious realms of music, especially Beethoven and Wagner. It would have been a killer concept artist for Fantasia Disney.

He was also known for his illustrations of Cervantes, HG Welles, Dante, Poe and other writers of the mysterious and the macabre.

Lower is Segrelles The Greedy Dante illustration of Hell

many artists and filmmakers reported films have an influence Segrelles, including Guillermo Del Toro, William Stout and John Howe.

I mean, there's a vast catalog of the exhibition, and I will consider whether I can get a copy.

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Essay on the influence of contemporary artists on Segrelles

MUVIM Segrelles: The Labyrinth of Fantasy ( MUVIM is short for the Valencian Museum of Illustration and modernity)

book: Jose Segrelles Albert: his life and work (a large monograph in Spanish from the 1980s)