Honorio Garcia Condoy

  • Country : Spain
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Biography

Honorio GARCIA CONDOY (1900 - 1953) was a Spanish sculptor and painter.

After attending the Fine Arts Schools of Valencia and Barcelona, he taught at the School of Fine Arts and at the Institute of Secondary Education of Zaragoza. 

From the age of 5, he showed a taste for creation, "scraping, cutting, carving, cutting, engraving, grating everything that can be cut, carved, grated", using "a sharpened nail for a pencil, a penknife for a chisel, whatever". 

In 1915 he entered the School of Fine Arts in Zaragoza. In 1919 he participated for the first time in a collective exhibition of busts of his artist friends. 

At the beginning of the 1920s, he did his military service in Melilla, where he had the opportunity to take an interest in African and Islamic art. 

In 1925, he spent several months in Madrid where he exhibited at the VI Autumn Salon. 

In 1926, the Ayutamiento de Zaragoza commissioned him to make a bust of Goya and in 1928 another by the playwright Joaquín Dicenta. 

In 1929 he participated in the decoration of a pavilion at the Barcelona International Exhibition and held a personal exhibition in Zaragoza. In 1932 he was awarded the second medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Madrid and later a scholarship to continue his studies. From 1934 to 1937 he lived in Rome, where he married Guadalupe Fernández on 15 July 1935 and took part in the 1936 Venice Biennale. 

As the scholarship holders had to sign their adhesion to the new Spanish regime, he refused, renouncing any official career and state commission. 

  

Forced to leave Rome, he stayed briefly in Brussels where he exhibited and then settled permanently in Paris on 15 August 1937. In 1946, he spent several months in Czechoslovakia to organize in Prague the exhibition Art of Republican Spain which brought together Spanish artists living in Paris. 

  

From 1950 to 1952 he stayed in Alba-la-Romaine during the summer where he exhibited with his friends the artists of Alba-la-Romaine among whom Theodore Appleby, Eudaldo, Alejandro Obregón, Jeanne Besnard-Fortin.

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