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.....Alvar Sunol
Munor-Ramos was born on January 20, 1935 in Montgat,
a Catalan fishing village on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain.
Sunol Alvar grew up on the sunny Mediterranean coast with his father
Tomas, mother Antonia and his older
brother and sister, Jordi and Amadea. Showing a great artistic
talent as a youth, he attended the prestigious Sant Jordi Art School
in Barcelona at age 16. In 1957,
at age 22, Alvar gave his first one-man
show at the Galleries Layetana in Barcelona.
The exhibit was a great success and Alvar received many invitations
for shows in other Spanish cities. He entered one of his
canvasses for the annual painting competition at the French
Institute of Barcelona. He again
won the Grand Prize, and with it a study trip to Paris. Sunol
Alvar has exhibited regularly
throughout the world over the years. His highly prized
lithographs were honored with an exhibition at the Hyacinth
Rigand Museum in Perpignan, France.
The Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake
City, Utah and the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas have held
major exhibits of his lithographs, paintings and sculptures..... |