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Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions, 1946–2003.

2003

  • Galeria d’Art Arcadi Calzada, Olot – “L’Informalisme a Catalunya i la seva evolució”

2001

  • Museu de l’Empordà, Figueres – August Puig (Barcelona 1929 – Monells 1999)

2000

  • Galleri MDA, Helsingborg, Sweden – Recordant August: The Paris Years 1947–53
  • Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona – “Homenatge a August Puig” (major retrospective)
  • Can Marc, Begur (Costa Brava) – “Homage to a Friend”: August Puig Fons d’Art

1998

  • Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona – Dau al Set: El foc s’escampa
  • Fundació Niebla, Casavells, Girona – retrospective

1997

  • Instituto Cervantes, Paris – “Corrida”: 69 images for the Lorca poem “Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejías”

1996

  • Travelling exhibition, Girona, Lleida, Bremen and Munich – Homage to Walter Benjamin, “Ex Libris”

1995

  • Corum de Montpellier, Montpellier – Contemporary Catalan Art
  • Publication: “Corrida (Goya – Picasso – Puig)”

1994

  • Institut Français, Barcelona – Homage to Pierre Deffontaines
  • Saló del Tinell, Barcelona – Artists of the Cercle Maillol

1993

  • Travelling exhibition, Barcelona, Madrid, Las Palmas and Palma de Mallorca – Veure Miró

1992

  • Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands – Experimental Movements in Europe 1944–1956
  • Teruel, Spain – Ciudad de las Cenizas: Homage to Luis Buñuel

1991

  • Galleri Monellis, Helsingborg, Sweden – one-man show
  • Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona – one-man show
  • Publication: “August – An Artist’s Memoir”

1990

  • Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona – Informalisme a Catalunya
  • Museu de l’Empordà, Figueres – August Puig: The Paris Years 1946–1953

1989

  • Institut Français, Barcelona – The French Revolution (travelled to Perpignan, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lyon, Paris, Andorra and Lleida)
  • Galeria Greca, Barcelona – Spanish Abstract Painting 1955–1965

1987

  • Landskrona Museum, Sweden – one-man show
  • Galeria Greca, Barcelona – one-man show

1986

  • Galleri Bülowska, Malmö, Sweden – one-man show
  • Caixa de Barcelona / Fundación March, Madrid – Spanish Art in New York 1950–1970 (the collection of Amos Cahan)
  • Publication: “Madame Marbach”

1985

  • Galeria Dau al Set, Barcelona – two exhibitions: Homage to Joan Ponç; Paris 1900–1960

1983

  • Institut Français, Barcelona – Homage to Charlie Rivel (later shown in seven other Spanish cities)

1982

  • Heppenheim, Germany – retrospective

1980

  • Galerie Marbach, Bern, Switzerland – one-man show

1979

  • Galeria Dau al Set, Barcelona – retrospective

1977

  • Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil – retrospective
  • International Contemporary Art Show, Copenhagen – participation

1976

  • International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland – stand of Galerie Marbach
  • Fundació Miró, Barcelona – participation in three collective exhibitions
  • Art Expo ’76, Feria de Barcelona – participation

1975

  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Ibiza – major retrospective
  • Galeria Punto, Valencia – retrospective 1961–74

1974

  • Galeria Manuel Barbié, Barcelona – retrospective 1960–67

1972

  • International Art Fair Art 3’72, Basel, Switzerland
  • Hans Ostertag Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany – one-man show

1971

  • Galeria Daniel, Madrid – one-man show

1970

  • Märkisches Museum der Stadt Witten, Germany – one-man show

1969

  • Museo de la Universidad de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico – two-man show

1968

  • Galeria AS, Barcelona – one-man show
  • Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona – stage design for “The Five Continents”, a ballet by Joan Guinjoan

1967

  • Prix International d’Art Contemporain de la Principauté de Monaco – first prize: Grand Prix Rainier III

1966

  • University of Massachusetts, United States
  • Galerie Marbach, Bern, Switzerland – one-man show

1965

  • Sala de Dirección General de Bellas Artes, Madrid – one-man show

1964

  • Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany – “Stierkampf”: Goya – Picasso – Puig
  • Colegio de Arquitectos de Barcelona – Retablo de Duende: in memory of Carmen Amaya

1963

  • Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany – retrospective
  • Museo de Bellas Artes de Málaga – Nine Spanish Painters

1962

  • Tate Gallery, London – Modern Spanish Painting
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona – one-man show (catalogue text: Cirici Pellicer)

1961

  • Galerie La Hune, Paris – one-man show

1960

  • Galerie Hella Nebelung, Düsseldorf, Germany – one-man show

1959

  • Galerie Olaf Hudwalcker, Frankfurt, Germany – one-man show

1956

  • Galerie Parnan, Wuppertal, Germany – one-man show

1955

  • Kunstkabinett, Frankfurt, Germany – one-man show

1953

  • Galerie Marbach, Bern, Switzerland – one-man show
  • Galerie d’Art Latin, Stockholm, Sweden – one-man show
  • Galerie Simone Colliente, Paris – one-man show

1950

  • Galerie Messages, Paris – one-man show

1949

  • Colegio de España, Cité Universitaire, Paris – one-man show (catalogue text: Bernard Dorival)

1948

  • Salon de Mai, Paris – Surindépendants
  • Réalités Nouvelles; Galerie Maeght, Paris – Les Mains Éblouies

1946

  • Els Blaus de Sarrià, Barcelona – Three Painters and a Sculptor