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Eduardo Arroyo

"All this inconsistency is the consistency of my work."

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Notes of biography

Eduardo Arroyo is born in 1937 in Madrid where he studies at the French high school, at the Instituto de Nuestra Senora de la Almudena, then at the School of Journalism. The young man is immediately attracted by the power of the image. Engaged artist and critic, he tends to demystify the art with a pictorial "speech" converting him in an inspiring personality of the narrative figuration. The artist considers painting with ability as a storyteller. In 1958 - he is 20 years old - he marks his opposition to the Franco regime, he fled Spain and joins Paris where he lives until 1982. Arroyo returns to his native land only 15 years later, his obsession with exile and a history of conflicts have fueled his art, both controversial and suffused with irony and lyricism. The style of Eduardo Arroyo is intentionally neutral and easily readable. From the 70s, the artist uses painting techniques and ever more diverse subjects, creating puzzles, juxtapositions, building a universe and an imaginary specific to him. Eduardo Arroyo is also a scenic designer for theatre and a writer.
Spanish artist Eduardo Arroyo died in his hometown of Madrid in October 2018; he was 81 years old.

Artists on display

The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.

Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.

We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.

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Complete work(s)

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Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « Eduardo Arroyo », Pierre Astier, Ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1982
  • « Eduardo Arroyo », Serraler, Fundacion Santillana, 1986
  • « Eduardo Arroyo – lithographies, gravures et sculptures », Ed. Berggruen, 1989
  • « Figuration narrative », Jean-Luc Chalumeau, Ed. Cercle d'Art, 2005
  • « Eduardo Arroyo : Moustache of la Gioconda », Jorge Edwards, Ed. Musée Reina Sofia, 2009
  • « E. Arroyo », B. Chapuis, cat. d'exposition, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, 2010
  • « Eduardo Arroyo », M. Sager et F. Di Rocco, Ed. Ides et Calendes, 2011
  • « La Nuit Espagnole », E. Arroyo et F. Di Rocco, Ed. Acte sud, 2014
  • « Eduardo Arroyo La parole est à la peinture », C. Derouet, Ed. Galerie Louis Carré, 2014
  • « Eduardo Arroyo », O. Kaeppelin, cat. d'expo, Ed. Flammarion, 2017
To read from the artist :
  • « Minutes d'un testament », Ed. Grasset et Fasquelle, Paris, 2010
  • « Deux balles de tennis », Eduardo Arroyo, Coll. Ecrire l'art, Ed. Flammarion, 2017
Website :
No website dedicated to the artist.

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Art movements

+ NEW FIGURATION / 1960-1980 / Gilles Aillaud, Christian Babou, John Christoforou, Leonardo Cremonini, François Jousselin, Maryan S. Maryan, Bernard Recalcati, Gérard Tisserand, etc.
+ NARRATIVE FIGURATION / 1965-1975 / Gilles Aillaud, Sergio Birga, Leonardo Cremonini, Gerard Guyomard, Öyvind Fahlström, Ivan Messac, Antonio Recalcati, Peter Saul, etc.
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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past.

These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier

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