20th Century Spanish

Mallol Suazo is a Catalan painter, widely recognised as one of the major exponents of non-avantgarde painting in Spain following the Civil War.

He trained at the of Barcelona under teachers like Félix Mestres (1872-1933) and Ramón Calsina (1901-1992). In his early stages, before devoting himself entirely to painting, he worked as illustrator under the nom de guerre Lollam.

In a context in which the successive isms were regarded as essential for the renewal of art, Mallol always kept at one remove from the avant-gardes, maintaining a markedly personal style.

A large number of landscape paintings bear witness to the time he spent in Brazil in the late 1960s and also to another period he spent in Italy.

Mallol was appointed a member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts and won several distinctions in Spain and abroad.

He exhibited his works in venues in London, New York, Paris, Caracas and Montevideo, and was one of the most renowned painters of Barcelona’s Sala Parés.