{"id":10465,"date":"2024-11-02T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galerieballesteros.fr\/portfolio-items\/ulpiano-checa-y-sanz-1860-1916-toledo\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:17:00","slug":"ulpiano-checa-y-sanz-1860-1916-toledo","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/galerieballesteros.fr\/en\/portfolio-items\/ulpiano-checa-y-sanz-1860-1916-toledo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulpiano CHECA Y SANZ (1860 – 1916) Toledo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ulpiano<\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Ulpiano<\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Ulpiano<\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Ulpiano<\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Ulpiano<\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Ulpiano<\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Ulpiano<\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Ulpiano<\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Ulpiano Checa y Sanz<\/h2>\n

Animation in front of the Puerta del Sol in Toledo, dated 1905. A bright, colorful painting by the painter Ulpiano Checa Y Sanz. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Oil on panel
\nSigned, dated and located lower right
\nDimensions: 22.5 x 30 cm
\nWith frame: 32.5 x 40.5 cm<\/h6>\n
sold<\/h6>\n
<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/h6>\n

Toledo’s Puerta del Sol, an architectural landmark of great beauty.<\/h4>\n

The 14th-century medieval Romanesque-Mudejar gateway impresses with its decorations.
\nIt is a rare example of Moorish military architecture.<\/p>\n

Ulpiano Checa y Sanz, a vigorous colorist and expressive painter.<\/h4>\n

Influenced by dark, realistic Spanish painting, he quickly added light effects to his realism, contrasting yellow, violet, blue and orange.
\nOur paintwork of contrasting colors is flooded with sunlight<\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n

Biography<\/span><\/h4>\n
\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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 Invasi\u00f3n de los b\u00e1rbaros, 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. <\/p>\n

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 North Africa. Out of the running at the Salon from 1897 onwards with Le rapt, he amassed numerous awards: a large gold medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle,
\nHe quickly specialized in depictions of horses, both in Orientalist and antique subjects, and with his paintings of North American Indians.
\nAt the end of 1887, he moved to Paris and produced drawings for the magazine L’Illustration, for which he was a correspondent.
\nHe met and married Matilde Chay\u00e9 Courtez, a young Argentinian painter whose parents, of B\u00e9arnaise origin, owned a villa in Bagn\u00e8res-de-Bigorre; the couple came each year to recharge their batteries for several months and then settled there.
\nIn 1895, he became Blanche Odin’s teacher.<\/p>\n

He made numerous trips to Argentina, where Buenos Aires high society commissioned his portraits. He painted large mural compositions and occasional allegorical scenes. He also traveled to Venice and Algeria. <\/p>\n

In 1900, he painted four pictures to decorate the Le Train bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris.
\nJust over 250 of his works are listed.<\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
\n

Museums<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\n
Spain<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

– Madrid, Prado Museum; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
– Colmenar de Oreja, Ulpiano Checa Museum<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
– Lugo, Museo Provincial de Lugo<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
– San Sebastian, San Telmo Museum<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
– Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
\n

Argentina<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
– Buenos-Aires: Military Circle; National Museum of Fine Arts; Museo de Granaderos; Museo Mitre.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/h6>\n

France<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
– Bagn\u00e8res-de-Bigorre, Salies museum :<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
– Nantes, Fine Arts Museum<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
– Paris: Gare de Lyon, Le Train bleu restaurant; Mus\u00e9e des Arts d\u00e9coratifs, library :<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/h6>\n

Uruguay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– Montevideo, Museo Juan Zorrilla de San Mart\u00edn: Tabar\u00e9.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/h6>\n

USA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
– Washington, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Indian Scene).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Source<\/h4>\n
\n
\n

Ulpiano Checa<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n