BRU, ROSER (1923-2021)

"El Sueño (The Dream)" (c.1970)
etching
cm
signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Bru was a famous Spanish-born Chilean Neo-Figurative Artist * Printmaker. She escaped Barcelona following the Spanish Civil War in 1939, and she studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Chile. In 1947 she joined the Plastic Students Group, along with other artists such as José Balmes, Gracia Barrios, and Guillermo Núñez. She has exhibited in several countries in Latin America, as well as in Spain, while some of her works are in the Museum of Modern Artin New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chiloé Museum of Modern Art, the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, the National Historical Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Artin Rio de Janeiro, and the Staatliche Museenin Berlin, among others. In 1995 Bru was decorated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain when she was named Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. In 2005 she was granted the Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. In 2015, the Government of Chile awarded her the National Prize for Plastic Arts. This rare etching is limited to 25.