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Jorge Castillo, born in Pontevedra in 1933, grew up in Buenos Aires after his family emigrated to Argentina. Largely self-taught, he also worked in technical drawing. Returning to Spain in 1955, he exhibited inks and gouaches at Madrid’s Galería Altamira in 1959. His subsequent career took him to Barcelona, Paris, Geneva and Berlin.
His painting and graphic work combine Surrealist figuration with abstraction. The triptych Palomares responds to the nuclear accident near that Spanish village in 1966. In Geneva, Castillo developed his printmaking, subsequently producing sequences devoted to Federico García Lorca and to lovers. A DAAD scholarship took him to Berlin in 1969. He also worked in New York and produced sculptures for public spaces.
This profile brings together identity references for Jorge Castillo and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Watercolour
Jorge Castillo (1933), _Composition
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2024-09-12 — 2024-09-25
Published result : 400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Watercolour
"Sans titre"
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2022-03-01 — 2022-03-16
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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Mixed media
Promenade
Mischtechnik
Catalogue period : 2021-12-13
Published result : 500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 200–400
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Mixed media on canvas
Ohne Titel
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2015-11-28
Published result : 2604 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
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Watercolour
Profil féminin
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2016-06-13
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 250–350
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Watercolour
Portrait à la rivière
aquarelle
Lot groupé — prix global
Catalogue period : 2019-05-10 — 2019-05-20
Group lot — total price
Published result : 300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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