Sebastià Boada was born in Barcelona in the Gracia neighborhood
in 1935. Everyone around him noticed his precocious ability in drawing
and painting. At the age of 14 he began his studies in the prestigious
“Escola d’Art I Oficis Artistics de Barcelona –
La Llotja. He graduates to the Escola Superior de Belles
Art de Saint Jordi in Barcelona and gets a grant from the Direccio
General de Belles Arts to “El Paular” in Segovia.
He then followed up with his art studies at the
Ecole des Beaux Arts de Geneve, where he obtained first
class honors in 1961, and has since that time won many awards in
shows all over western Europe.
Now, Sebastià Boada dedicates to paint oil-on-canvas;
Excellent portraits, exquisite impressionistic landscapes and sculptures
by means of wax burnout tecnic. The giclées and the original
paintings, have a great international repercussion, specially in
Europe and USA.
His work has been exhibited in Barcelona and Geneva
many times where the reception of the critics and the collecting
public has been unanimously positive.
His paintings are widely held internationally and
his illustrations are well known in the US, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Israel, Turkey. South Africa, Germany,
England, Holland, France, Italy, Sweden. Denmark, Norway, Portugal,
Finland, Yugoslavia, and of course, Spain. |