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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 2137831, member: 33&quot;]Thanks for that. Very interesting! I see it says the intrarealists had their first exhibition in 1967, and that is also interesting. </p><p><br /></p><p>A long time ago I took a graduate course that was basically about the political aspects of running a museum and also collecting for a museum. This was when I lived in Chicago. One of our assignments was to go to a number of galleries and to look for prints and other flat or small art items that would meet the parameters of the collections of a museum in the Chicago area that happened to be led by our teacher. (Smart way for him to send scouts around to find things for him.) He gave us a hypothetical $500 to spend. He also promised to buy at least one thing that one of us found, although he ended up saying he would get three of the ones we found. We each had to give a presentation to the class about the piece, so that meant we had to research it as much as possible. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the print I found was by Federico Castellón, who was born in Spain but moved to the U.S. as a child.&nbsp; He later studied in Europe at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and some of his art reflected that.&nbsp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Castell%C3%B3n" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Castell%C3%B3n" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Castellón</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I had never heard of him, but became very interested in his early work, some of which had surrealist aspects. His later work was fine, too, but I liked the earlier work. By the way, mine was one of the pieces the teacher chose to buy. Here is a copy of a print of it online! <a href="https://www.1stdibs.com/art/prints-works-on-paper/figurative-prints-works-on-paper/federico-castellon-two-women-original-lithograph-portrait-signed-federico-castellon/id-a_2932791/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.1stdibs.com/art/prints-works-on-paper/figurative-prints-works-on-paper/federico-castellon-two-women-original-lithograph-portrait-signed-federico-castellon/id-a_2932791/" rel="nofollow">https://www.1stdibs.com/art/prints-works-on-paper/figurative-prints-works-on-paper/federico-castellon-two-women-original-lithograph-portrait-signed-federico-castellon/id-a_2932791/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I was wondering whether he and Abel Vallmitjana knew each other or traveled in the same circles but I don&#039;t see evidence of that in what I&#039;ve read.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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