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Cabré, Manuel
(b Barcelona, 25 Jan 1890; d Caracas, 5 Feb 1984). Venezuelan painter of Spanish birth. From 1896 he lived in Venezuela and studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes, Caracas (1904–9) under Emilio Mauri (1855–1908) and Antonio Herrera Toro. In 1912 he was a founder-member with Antonio Edmundo Monsanto and others of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, a group that made landscape painting the leading genre in Venezuelan art in the first half of the 20th century. Between 1916 and 1919 the influence of Samys Mützner, Nicolas Ferdinandov and Emilio Boggio had a marked effect on his palette and composition. He travelled to France in 1920 to consolidate his artistic training, attending the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and executing several works. In 1931 he returned to Venezuela and held an exhibition of his French paintings. From then on he dedicated himself fully to studying the Venezuelan landscape, in particular the mountain El Avila. In 1951 he was awarded the national painting prize, which confirmed his position as a leading representative of Venezuelan landscape painting and as the originator of a school of painting. An example of his work from this period is La Silla Seen from La Urbina (1955; Caracas, Mus. A. Contemp. Sofía Imber).
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