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ABOUT ME

EXHIBITION VISIT

ART

 

zINFORMATION ABOUT ME:

NORMAN NAROTZKY was born in Brooklyn New York in 1928.  Since 1958 he has been living 

in Barcelona and Cadaquès with regular visits to New York.

email: narotzky@compuserve.com

 

AWARDS:

Purchase Prize, Caixa de Terrassa (Barcelona) 1999

Grand Prize, II Bienal d'Art, FC Barcelona, 1987.                                                                                                

Bronze Medal, Premi de Dibuix Joan Miró, Barcelona 1986.                                                                                                        

Painting Grant, Generalitat de Catalunya, 1983.                                                                                                                                        

Award, 2nd Miniprint International de Cadaques, 1982.                                                                                                                        

First Prize, Hebrew Educational Society, New York, 1959.                                                                                                                

Fulbright Fellowship, Munich, 1956-57.                                                                                                                                                

Philadelphia Museum Prize, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., 1956.                                                                                                                            

French Government Fellowship, Paris, 1955-56.                                                                                                                                

Wooley Foundation`Fellowship,  Paris, 1954-55.

Pearl Brewery Award, Texas Watercolor Society,  San Antonio, Texas 1954 

Cooper Union Award for Excellence in the Graphic Arts, 1952

Art Students League Scholarships,  1945-46 and 1947-48

New York State Scholarship, 1945-1949

                           

 

 

   

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Dali and me in the patio of his home in Port Lligat,                           

 

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Dalí and me in Cadaquès, 35 years later!  

 

SELECTION OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

51 Solo Exhibitions including:

Centre d'Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona, 1999 / Retrospective

Galería 98, Cadaquès, 1998

Can Marc, Girona, 1996

Museu de l'Empordá, Figueres, Forty Year Retrospective, 1994

Galería El Tórculo, Madrid, 1993.

Manhattan East Gallery of Fine Art, New York City, 1993.   "The Raven".

Galería d'Art Port Lligat, Cadaquès, Spain, 1992.

Centre Cultural de la Caixa de Terrassa (Barcelona), 1989.

Manhattanville College, New York, 1981.

Lee Hall Gallery, Marquette, Michigan,  1979.

Archer Gallery, London, 1970.

Galerie Le Rempart, Brussels, 1969.

Galería René Metras, Barcelona, 1966.

Grand Central Moderns, New York, 1965.

 

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In my Cadaquès Studio, 1965. My wife Mercedes in the  foreground

 

 

 

 

SELECTION OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

III Bienal, FC Barcelona, 1999;   Guest of Honor as winner of the Grand Prize 

L'Empordà, Terra d'Artistes, Barcelona, 1994; Madrid, 1995; & Figueres, 

Col.lecció d'Art de l'Avui, Centre de Cultura, Barcelona, 1994.

Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, 1991.

Informalisme a Catalunya, Centre d'Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona, 1990.

Le Portrait en Catalogne, Chateau Royale, Collioure, France, 1987.

Earth, Body & Soul: Three Artists, Arbitrage Gallery, NY 1984.

Atelier 17 Retrospective, Elvehjem Art Center, Wisconsin, 1977 & others.

Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1971.

Intrarealism, O'Hana Gallery, London, 1968.

I Intrarealist Exhibition, Palazzo Stozzi, Florence, 1967.

Arte de América y España, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, & others, 1963-64.

Recent Painting USA: The Figure, MOMA, NY & others, 1962-63.

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Annual Exhibition 1962.

VI Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1961.

Salon de Mai, Paris, 1956.

Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, 1956.

Brooklyn Museum, NY, Brooklyn Society of Artists Exhibition, 1952.

 

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In my studio, Barcelona, with the diptych  "Los Reyes Católicos"

Click on the paintings to see them full size

 

 

 

 

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"Self Portrait" 1983 / Watercolor, color pencils and ink on  paper.

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Who's Who in the World;  / Who's Who in America;  Who's Who in American Art; / Who's Who in Europe;  / Who's Who in Spain; 

Collage & Assemblage, Meilach & Ten Hoor, Crown Publishers, N.Y.

La Historia del Collage. Del Cubismo a la Actualidad, Herta Wescher; Gustavo Gili, Barcelona.                                               

Spanish Painting, José María Moreno Galvan, La Ultima Vanguardia; Magius, Madrid.                                   

The James A. Michener Collection. Twentieth Century American Art; The University of Texas, Austin.

Iberia, James A. Michener, Random House, N.Y.

Ayer y Hoy del Grabado, Mariano Rubio, Ediciones Tarraco, Tarragona.

Printworld Directory of Contemporary Prints & Prices,  PA.

Cent anys de Pintura a Cadaquès, Joan Josep Tharrats,                                          Ediciones del Cotal, Barcelona.

La Pintura Informal en Catalunya, Lourdes Cirlot,  Anthropos,   Barcelona;

Informalisme a Catalunya, Pintura, Lourdes Cirlot, Editorial Planeta, Barcelona. 

Iberico 2Mil, Madrid 1992.

Historia de l'Art Catalá, Corredor-Matheos, Ediciones 62, Barcelona.

 

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MUSEUMS:

Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Museo Reina Sofía de Arte Contemporaneo de Madrid.

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona.

University of Texas Art Museum, (The James A. Michener Collection), Austin, Texas.

Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California.

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Villafames,  (Valencia)

Museo de Electrografía, Cuenca.

Monasterio de Santa María de Vilabertran, Girona, ("Avui" Collection). 

Museo FC de Barcelona.

University of Cincinnati Rare Book Library

John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI, U.S.A.

University of Iowa Library, Monographic Collections, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.

Rare Book and Manuscripts Library,  Columbia University,   NY.  

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.

Museu de l'Empordà, Figueres

Museu de Valls, Tarragona

Museu del Monasterio de Poblet, (Girona)

Museum of Stavanger, Norway

 

 

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With Burt Silverman and Harvey Dinnerstein,                                 New York City, 1996.