Marlborough Gallery - Claudio Bravo Graphics Artwork

Biography

Born in Chile in 1936, Claudio Bravo has lived and worked in Tangier, Morocco since 1972. The artist first established himself in Madrid in the 1960’s as a society portraitist, gaining recognition for his astounding ability to create verisimilitude. Demonstrating mastery in all techniques and mediums on paper, his superior draftsmanship closely resembles the style of the Renaissance-Baroque tradition. Bravo’s ability to depict creases, indentations, and folds in his still lifes is reminiscent of Spanish masters such as Zurbarán and Velázquez.

Today, Bravo continues to create figurative paintings, drawings, and prints and his exceptional ability to give life to mundane objects is unparalleled. The emotion he captures is also present in his lithographs, as they hold the same warmth and detail found in his oil paintings.

Works by Claudio Bravo are included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.