Ulpiano Checa y Sanz
Animation in front of the Puerta del Sol in Toledo, dated 1905. A bright, colorful painting by the painter Ulpiano Checa Y Sanz.
Oil on panel Signed and dated and located lower right Dimensions: 22.5 x 30 cm With frame: 32.5 x 40.5 cm
Price: 3500 euros
Toledo’s Puerta del Sol, an architectural landmark of great beauty.
The 14th-century medieval Romanesque-Mudejar gateway impresses with its decorations. It is a rare example of Moorish military architecture.
Ulpiano Checa y Sanz, a vigorous colorist and expressive painter.
Influenced by dark, realistic Spanish painting, he quickly added light effects to his realism, contrasting yellow, violet, blue and orange. Our paintwork of contrasting colors is flooded with sunlight
Biography
The son of a stone quarry owner, Ulpiano Checa y Sanz, born in Madrid and died in Dax (Landes), was a Spanish painter and engraver. Ulpiano Checa y Sanz began his artistic training in 1873 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, where he studied under Manuel Dominguez, Federico de Madrazo, Alejandro Ferrant and Pablo y Gonzalvo Peres. At the age of 19, he became a professor at the same Academy. In 1884, he obtained a place as a boarder at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, from where he sent his work La Invasión de los bárbaros, which was awarded the 1st class medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Madrid in 1887 and the gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Vienna in 1888. The work was acquired by the Prado Museum. His first exhibition featured Nirma and Egeria, also acquired by the Prado Museum. Ulpiano Checa soon became an important figure in Parisian salons. His first solo exhibition at Galerie Georges Petit, 1895, was followed by numerous appearances at salons in France, Europe, Latin America and the Maghreb. He amassed a number of awards, including a large gold medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. He soon specialized in depictions of horses, both in orientalist and antique subjects, and with his paintings of North American Indians. At the end of 1887, he moved to Paris and produced drawings for the magazine L’Illustration, for which he was a correspondent. He met and married Matilde Chayé Courtez, a young Argentinian painter whose parents, of Béarnaise origin, owned a villa in Bagnères-de-Bigorre; the couple came each year to recharge their batteries for several months and then settled there. In 1895, he became Blanche Odin’s teacher. He made many trips to Argentina, where Buenos Aires high society commissioned his portraits. He painted large-scale murals and occasional allegorical scenes. He also traveled to Venice and Algeria. In 1900, he painted four pictures to decorate the Le Train bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris. Just over 250 of his works are listed.
Museums
– Madrid, Prado Museum; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
France
Uruguay
USA
Source
https://musees-occitanie.fr/artiste/ulpiano-checa/ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulpiano_Checa_y_Sanz
