Jose Montanes (Spanish 1918-1998) "The New Bonnet" Young Girl with Flowers and Ice Cream Oil on Canvas.

After serving in the Spanish Civil War and witnessing the horrors and ugliness of war, Montanes decided he would devote his life to painting. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia. In 1947, he had his first one-man show in Barcelona Recognition, scholarships, acclaim and honors quickly followed. At about this time, the French government awarded the young artist a scholarship to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. During his four years in Paris, he had numerous one-man exhibitions in Nice, Cannes, Lyons, and Basel, Switzerland. The artist's work has also been seen in solo shows in Brussels, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, St. Louis, and other major art centers throughout the world. His work is in the permanent collection of numerous museums: St. Etienne, France; Crocker Museum, San Francisco; Museo de Arte Moderno, San Paolo, Brazil; The Cleveland Museum of Art, to name just a few. Montanes' work is equally popular with well-known collectors: Jose Iturbi, Charles Chaplin, Clare Booth Luce, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Harry Belafonte, Harold Arlen, Picasso, Red Skelton, Dean Martin, Averill Harriman, and others.

Overall Size: 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. 

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