José Cruz Herrera, (Spanish, 1890-1972)
A draped reclining beauty, c. 1933
Oil on panel
14 x 17 1/2in (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
Private collection
José Cruz Herrera (1 October 1890 – 11 August
1972) was a Spanish painter who concentrated principally on genre
works and landscape art. He worked in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, France and
especially Morocco, where he lived for much of his life in Casablanca.
His talent
was soon apparent and he began formal training in Cádiz. He continued his
studies at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid before being awarded a grant to
study in Paris and Rome in 1915. He subsequently received several more awards.
He concentrated on genre works and landscapes, but he is best known as an
orientalist painter, with a particular faculty for producing atmospheric
depictions of scenes of everyday life in Morocco.
Cruz
Herrera travelled to Montevideo in Uruguay and Buenos Aires in Argentina in
1922. He went to Morocco in 1929. He subsequently established a studio at
Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris, and contributed to collective
exhibitions in 1934, 1935 and 1936 at the Salon de la Société Nationale des
Beaux-Arts. He also exhibited solo at various times in Madrid, Barcelona and
London in 1912, Antwerp in 1931, Casablanca in 1933, and Paris in 1934.
After the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, he
returned to Morocco. The following year Spain awarded Cruz Herrera a Knight's
Cross in the Order of Isabella the Catholic, followed by a knighthood in the
Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise in 1958. He died on 11 August 1972 in
Casablanca but his remains were transferred back to La Línea to be buried
there. More on José
Cruz Herrera
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