Alberto Pla y Rubio

Alberto Pla y Rubio (18671937) was a Spanish painter interested in social issues.[1] He was a professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia, the Academy of Fine Arts in Cadiz and the La Lonja school in Barcelona.

Alberto Pla y Rubio
Rubio's 1920 oil painting Girl in a Field
Born1867
Villanueva de Castelló, Valencia, Spain
Died1937
Barcelona, Spain
NationalitySpanish
EducationReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
Known forPainting
Notable work
  • ¡A la guerra! (1895) De la guerra (1897)
  • Girl in a Field (1920)
MovementImpressionism

He was born in Castelló de la Ribera, Valencia. He studied art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where he was a pupil of Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans,[1] and in the workshop of Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench.[2] He won a first-class medal in the National Exhibition of 1895 with a canvas entitled ¡A la guerra! ("Off to War!")[1] and won a second-class medal at the Paris Salon of 1899.[3] He died in Barcelona.

Rubio focused on social themes in a realistic style. He was strongly influenced by Joaquin Sorolla and impressionist brushwork, especially in the use of light in his oil paintings.[4]

His prize-winning painting, ¡A la guerra!, belongs to the Prado, the national art museum of Spain, and currently hangs in the town hall of Alcalá de Henares.[1]

In 2006, his painting The Orange Harvest sold at Christie's for US$16,800 (equivalent to $24,000 in 2022).[5]

References

  1. "Pla y Rubio, Alberto". Museo del Prado (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  2. "Alberto Pla Y Rubio". askART. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1900. p. 284. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. "Maestros del realismo en España: Alberto Pla y Rubio". trianarts (in Spanish). 4 October 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  5. "Alberto Pla Rubio (Spanish, 1867 - 1937)". MutualArt. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  6. Gutiérrez Buron, Jesús (1980). Exposiciones Nacionales de pintura en la España del siglo XIX, vol. II (in Spanish). Madrid. p. 188.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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