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Message:: [QUOTE="Debora, post: 1526404, member: 1476"]Gaspar Miró Lleó (1859 – 1930) Landscape painter of the nineteenth and twentieth century, was born in Vilanova in 1859 and died in Paris in 1930. He started art with the painter Joan Miró Ferrer, after studying at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the Market. When finished his studies he went to Paris to extend them for two years. When he returned to Catalonia was appointed Professor of painting and drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in his hometown, but after a time he returned to Paris. There he presented from 1904 until 1914 with such success, that the City was named “Artist of the town of Paris” and gave him permission to plant his horse anywhere in the city Paris. Dealers vying for his work and his exhibitions at the Hotel Drouot were many other successes. In 1914, due to the war, the family moved to Lyon. After the war ended he traveled and painted by Belgium and Italy. In 1927, due to him being unhealthy air in Lyon, decided to return to his homeland, where he continued painting, although most of his work was sent to Paris, where he died during his travels. Some of his early works are kept in the hospital Vilanova and the collection of Vidal Ferrer and other important collections in Barcelona. Debora[/QUOTE]