The painter and sculptor Carmen Laffón dies at the age of 87

The Sevillian painter and sculptor Carmen Laffón has passed away at dawn this Sunday at the age of 87, at his home in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a town that was the scene of many of his works.

Favorite Daughter of Andalusia and recognized with the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X el Sabio, sources from the Ministry of Culture and Historical Heritage of the Junta de Andalucía have confirmed his death to Europa Press. Likewise, the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville has mourned her death through Twitter, where it has shared some images of a recent exhibition of the artist:

For his part, the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, has sent his condolences to the artist’s family, whom he referred to as “a unique talent that has marked Andalusian art”. “In the landscapes of Andalusia there will always be the essence of Carmen Laffón“He wrote in a tweet.

Born in Seville in 1934, Laffón is considered as one of the best artists in Spanish painting of the second half of the 20th century and received numerous recognitions throughout his career, such as the National Prize for Plastic Arts. It is planned that his funeral is held on monday in the parish of San Nicolás, in Seville.

Work and trajectory

As a child, her parents, who had met at the Madrid Student Residence, decided not to take her to school and to educate her at home. He started painting when he was 12 years old, by the hand of the painter Manuel González Santos, a family friend and his father’s former drawing teacher, and at 15 he entered the School of Fine Arts in Seville.

After studying for three years at that institution, he moved to Madrid, where he finished his degree at the School of Fine Arts. In 1954 she traveled to Paris and was especially impressed by Chagall’s work. The following year, he made a study stay in Rome.

Upon his return to Seville in 1956 he continued painting in the family summer house in La Jara, in front of the Coto de Doñana, which would end up being the central place of his artistic activity. There he had a study, and the Coto de Doñana and its landscape became the main protagonist of his painting.

In 1967 he created, together with Teresa Duclós and Pepe Soto, the El Taller School and in 1975 he joined the Natural Drawing Chair of the School of Fine Arts in Seville. In 1998 she was appointed an academic at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid and in January 2000 she gave an entrance speech entitled ‘Vision of a landscape’, in which she addressed her relationship with Sanlúcar de Barrameda and the preserve of Doñana.

Last March, the artist, who has been active until his deathHe was returning to Madrid after two decades with two exhibitions, one at the Botanical Garden and the other at the Leandro Navarro Gallery, with his most recent landscapes of the Cadiz coast.