Ángeles Santos Torroella

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Ángeles Santos Torroella
Self portrait, 1928
Born	(1911-11-07)7 November 1911 Portbou, Spain
Died	3 October 2013(2013-10-03) (aged 101) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Known for	Painting
Spouse	Emili Grau i Sala ​ (m. 1936)​ [1]

Ángeles Santos Torroella (7 November 1911 – 3 October 2013) was a

In 1929 Santos Torroella presented her work Un Mundo (A World) at the Autumn Salon in Madrid.[1] The next year she was given her own room at the exhibition.^[1] In 1931 she held a solo exhibit in Paris. In 1932, she participated in the Iberian Artists Collective in Copenhagen and Paris, and the next year was invited to the exhibit at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (USA). In 1936, she exhibited at the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. She exhibited in Barcelona for the first time in 1935, at Syra Galleries.

In 1936, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Santos Torroella and her husband fled Spain for France. She returned to Spain by herself in 1937.^[1] The couple reunited in 1962.^[1]

Work

Her early work ranges from expressionism to surrealism, though it later moved into

• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
• ca:Museu de l'Empordà, Figueres

Death

Torroella died on 3 October 2013, at the age of 101.^[4][1]

References

External links

• images of Ángeles Santos Torroella's work at The Museo Reina Sofía

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