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Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
About Luis Marsans
- LluÃs Marsans i Julià (31 December 1930 – 16 January 2015) was a Catalan painter.
- Born in Barcelona to a wealthy family, he grew up in Paris, and in 1947 traveled to Mexico and the United States.
- In 1948 he returned to Barcelona where he studied painting with Ramon Rogent and became loosely associated with the Dau al Set group.
- In the mid-1950s he became friends with Marcel Duchamp.
- In the mid-1960s, he destroyed the abstract art he had been making and, influenced by Ramón Gaya, dedicated himself to figurative work.
- Between 1966 and 1970, he explored the world of Marcel Proust's work In Search of Lost Time in a suite of drawings which he exhibited at Trece Gallery in Barcelona in 1972.
- In 1980 he had a solo exhibition at Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris.
- In 1985 he was included in the group show Representation Abroad at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Marsans painted many still-lifes and landscapes, usually in small formats and using mixed techniques.
- He is known especially for paintings of shelves filled with books, a subject he painted more than a hundred times.
- In 1985, John Ashbery wrote that Marsans' works "suggest nineteenth-century American trompe-l'oeil painting.
- Steeped in the light of memory, a Coke can and a Bic lighter become votive objects..." Described as a realist, Marsans says of his relationship to realism: "One cannot paint what one sees....
- One can only paint what one remembers....
- It [realism] is the identification with some realities from the past".
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