Artist: Antonio Saura (1930 - 1998)
Nationality: Spanish
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting, Printmaking
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Biography:
Spanish painter, printmaker, and draughtsman, Antonio Saura was a self-taught artist. While suffering from an extensive illness in 1947, he occupied time painting and studying. Saura lived in Paris from 1953 to 1955 and painted in the Surrealist style. After his return to Spain, he adopted a harsh expressive style of painting and focused on protesting the Franco regime.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Dama, Antonio Saura (Spain, Huesca, 1930 - 1998)  (Artist), 1961, Oil
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Artist: Antonio Saura Title: Maja Date: 1957 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.63-3/4 x W.51-1/4
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Antonio Saura untitled, plate on pp. 32-33 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Antonio Saura - Maja 1957 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Antonio Montauti Antonio Magliabechi 17th - 18th century
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Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis) St. Joseph Being Expelled from the Temple Engraving mid 16th century
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Antonio Visentini Piazza San Marco, looking towards S. Geminiano; pl.11 from Part III of the series Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores Ex Antonio Canal... Etching 1735
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Francisco de Goya - Don Antonio Noriega 1801 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Federico Brandani - Antonio Galli n.d. bronze The Frick Collection Italian
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Gioan Antonio Lorenzini The Holy Family Etching 17th - 18th century
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Antonio Tempesta The Entry of Alexander into Babylon, after Antonio Tempesta Engraving 16th - 17th century
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Antonio Tempesta Roman Battle Scene, after Antonio Tempesta (?) Etching 16th - 17th century
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Giovanni Antonio Faldoni Two Nude Shepherds, after Parmigianino Engraving 1724
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Gioan Antonio Lorenzini The Ascension of the Virgin, after Guido Reni Etching 17th century
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Francisco de Goya - Don Juan Antonio Cuervo 1819 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Ipolito Salazar ILMO. Sr.Dr.JOS… ANTONIO ZUBIRIA,/ Obispo de Durango (Most Illustrious Sir and Doctor JosÈ Antonio Zubiria, Bishop of Durango Lithograph 19th century
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Giovanni Antonio da Brescia Hercules and Antaeus, after Giovanni Antonio da Brescia's engraving after Mantegna Metalcut circa 18 - 19th century
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Antonio Baratta L'Adulatore, from Opere di Carlo Goldoni, after Novelli Engravings 1761
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Antonio Baratta Frontispiece for Opere di Carlo Goldoni, after Novelli Engraving 1761
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Antonio Baratta Moliere, from Opere di Carlo Goldoni, after Novelli Engravings 1761
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Signature de Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by BAZZI Giovanni Antonio
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Antonio Baratta Illustration To I Rusteghi, from Opere di Carlo Goldoni, after Novelli Engravings 1761
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Antonio Baratta La Serva Amorosa, from Opere di Carlo Goldoni, after Novelli Engravings 1761
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Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes - Jose Antonio, Marques de Caballero 1807 Oil on canvas Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Spanish
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Antonio Frasconi Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi/Weyhe Gallery March 27 - April 30, 1954 Woodcut 20th century
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Gioan Antonio Lorenzini The Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist, a Bishop Saint and Two Donors, after Veronese Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Carlo Antonio Porporati Il Bagno di Leda (Leda's bath), after Correggio Engraving 18th century
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Antonio Visentini Piazza San Marco, View Between Church and Tower, pl. III from a series of four scenes of the Piazza after Canaletto Etching circa 1745
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Antonio Visentini Piazza San Marco, View of the Public Library, pl. IV from a series of four scenes of the Piazza after Canaletto Etching circa 1745
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Pietro Rotari Saint Sebastian, after Antonio Balestra Etching 1725
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Francesco Villamena A Battle Scene, after Antonio Tempesta Engraving 16 - 17th century
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Antonio Frasconi See Again, Say Again by Antonio Frasconi (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1964]) book with uncounted pages of reproductions of color woodcuts 1964
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ANTONIO DAL PONTE (4e quart 16e siècle) by anonyme ; PONTE Jacopo da (d'après), BASSANO Jacopo (dit, d'après)
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Autoportrait (1671) by SACCHIENSE Giovanni Antonio (attribué à)
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Antonio Frasconi See and Sayä, A Picture Book in Four Languages by Antonio Frasconi (New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955]) book with uncounted reproductions of color woodcuts 1955
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Antonio Frasconi Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi, catalogue cover for Smithsonian Institution Traveling Service 1953-1954 Color woodcut 20th century
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Femme caricaturée (19e siècle) by anonyme
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Antonio Tempesta La Primavera, from The Four Seasons Etching 1592
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Giulio di Antonio Bonasone The Wounded Scipio, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 16th century
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Giulio di Antonio Bonasone The Birth of John the Baptist engraving circa mid 16th century
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Antonio LafrÈry (LafrÈri) Solitauriliorum sacrificiorum etc. Engraving 1553
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Antonio LafrÈry (LafrÈri) Solitauriliorum sacrificiorum etc. Engraving 1553
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Antonio Beato Bronze Statue of Dai-Bouts, near Kamakura Albumen print mounted to an album page circa 1867
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Johann Friedrich Greuter Arcanis Nodis: Palladium, after Antonio Pomeranci Engraving 17th century
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Three Shells, Antonio Pazzi (Italy, 1706 - 1768)  (Artist), Engraving
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Violin, 1693 Made by Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737)Cremona, ItalyWood; L. 23 1/4 in. (59.4 cm); W.
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (grasses), and first image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]) woodcut 1960
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Antonio Frasconi The Snow and the Sun /La Nieve y el Sol, translated by Antonio Frasconi (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1961]) book with uncounted pages of reproductions of color woodcuts 1961
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (standing man), and second image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]) woodcut 1960
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (grasses), and first image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]) woodcut 1960
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (young man), and fifth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]) woodcut 1960
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Antonio Tempesta The Flight into Egypt Etching 17th century
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Antonio Tempesta A Boar Hunt Etching 17th century
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Antonio Tempesta God Creating the Animals Etching 17th century
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Antonio Tempesta A Battle Scene Etching 17th century
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Antonio Beato Columns in the Hypostile Hall-Harnak, Upper Egypt albumen print ca. 1865 - 1869
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Femme nue, assise, endormie, vue de face (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by ALLEGRI Antonio (école)
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Vénus portée par trois amours (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by ALLEGRI Antonio (école)
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (standing man), and second image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]) woodcut 1960
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (young man), and fifth image in the book A Whitman Portrait, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi ([New York: Spiral Press, 1960]) woodcut 1960

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (3)
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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: From Picasso to Tàpies: Spanish 20th Century Art from the Reina Sofia
Spanish artists working in the period before 1945 exercised a major influence on artistic developments in the twentieth century. They were in the vanguard of the changes taking place in the art world, in style, in professional attitudes and in the...
Fundacao Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva: Picasso: Homage to the bullfighter
Picasso sought the explanation of life and death in Dominguin’s art of bullfighting. A huge number of projects emerged from the friendship between the painter and the bullfighter, among them were projects for bull rings, books and many ideas on bu...
Sprengel Museum: Cloudcatcher: Horst Antes and the Shift in Painting during the 1960s
Antes developed his figure in the post-war years, a period in which abstraction had been largely accepted as the international art idiom. While the figurative was being vigorously purged from the picture, Antes worked obsessively...

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