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Storage Room insight: «Untitled» by Antoni Clavé
03 / 11 / 2025


This month, you can find the lithograph Untitled by Antoni Clavé on display in the Storage Room Insight, marking the twentieth anniversary of the artist's passing.


Clavé trained at the Llotja School in Barcelona, where he studied with artists such as Fèlix Mestres, Josep Mongrell, and Àngel Ferrant. At the end of the Civil War, he went into exile in France, where he lived until his death—first in Perpignan, then in Paris, and finally in Saint-Tropez—gaining wide international recognition as an artist. Throughout his career, he worked in various disciplines such as painting, engraving, and sculpture, and was associated with the so-called School of Paris, alongside artists such as Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Joan Miró, and Antonio Saura.


His art evolved from intimate realism, expressionism, and symbolism to informalism and experimental abstraction. From 1975 onwards, his work was characterised by backgrounds that simulated folded and overlapping papers, represented with artifice—a technique he called papier froissé.