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Mayor House features an outstanding work of Ramón Gaya which has been donated to the city (08/02/2011)

The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, this morning the work of Ramón Gaya, the tree has been donated to the city of Murcia and Don Demetrio Ortuño Yáñez, architect and academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Santa Maria the Arrixaca.

The Mayor was accompanied by the councilman of Culture and European Programs of the City of Murcia, Fátima Barnuevo, and the director of the Museum Gaya, Manuel Fernández-Delgado.

This piece was exhibited at the exhibition "The first Ramón Gaya. 1910-1931" exhibition held to mark the birth centenary of the painter.

The work, a watercolor, "was conducted in 1927, before his departure for Paris, a grant from the city of Murcia, where he experimented with avant-garde painter.

Be seen in the treatment of leaves forms with influences post-Cubist geometric compositions.

The watercolor donated, whose dimensions are 31.7 x 24 cm, will become part of the important collection of works of Ramón Gaya which houses the Museum, located in the Plaza de Santa Catalina.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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