Lucio Muñoz

(Madrid, 1929 – 1998)

Author's artworks

20th Century Spanish

Trained at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he met his wife Amalia Avia (1930-2011) and forged a relationship with the group of Madrid realist artists.

In the mid 1950s, a scholarship to Paris allowed him to become acquainted with Art Informel, which he immediately embraced and brought back to Spain precisely at the moment when the
was founded in Madrid.

From a very early stage he focused his attention mostly on the use of materials, and soon began to work with wood, either burnt, scraped, painted or in superimposed pieces. He acquired a surprising mastery in the use of wood, achieving considerable expressiveness in a markedly austere palette. Without renouncing abstraction, in his later years he began to introduce figurative references, primarily landscapes. He also had considerable success as a printmaker.

Muñoz took part in significant exhibitions of Spanish painting worldwide, and won major distinctions throughout his career, including the National Visual Arts Prize in 1983 and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 1993.

His works may be found in the collections of major national and international art museums such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Fundación Juan March and Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao and British Museum and Tate Modern, London.