Barcelona, Spain, 1924 — Barcelona, 2017. A grandson of Francesc Macià, he left Catalonia with his family after the Civil War. In 1941 he settled in Mexico, where he became a Mexican citizen. He qualified as an architect at UNAM in 1950 and taught at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura from 1951 to 1970. He worked on the urban plan for Acapulco and on the design of the Palacio de los Deportes for the 1968 Olympic Games.
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He began painting in 1959 and from 1978 devoted himself mainly to painting. In 1990 he returned to Catalonia, where he was given a retrospective in Barcelona in 1994. The library of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya holds his documentary collections of press cuttings and catalogues.
40 x 60.3 cm
Oil on canvas
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