Ceferí Olivé i Cabré (born in Reus in 1907,íOlivé died in the same town in 1995) was a Catalan painter.

Biography

Ceferí Olivé studied with master painter . He specialized in watercolor. He used to sign his paintings with his name in Castilian Spanish: Ceferino Olivé. Many of his paintings are Mediterranean landscapes.

Ceferí Olivé

He lived most of his life in Reus, but also spent some time in Barcelona, where he painted railway scenes and shipyards. He also travelled to some European countries.

Ceferí Olivé

Most of his exhibitions were in Barcelona and Madrid and Bilbao.

Ceferí Olivé

Awards and posthumous honors

Ceferí Olivé is regarded as one of the best watercolor painters in Spain. He won also the first medal of the International Art Gallery in London and an award of the Railway painting Exhibition in Spain. Among the other awards he won, the following deserve mention: Galeria Pictoria award, Barcelona, 1941, National Watercolor Prize, 1942 Fortuny Medal in 1942 and in 1943 Medal of honour of the National Watercolor Exhibition, 1947 Creu de Sant Jordi in 1985.

There is a street in Reus named after him.

External links

Museum in Reus

Olivé Cabré, Ceferí (or Ceferino)

Artists from Catalonia

20th-century Spanish painters

20th-century Spanish male artists

Spanish male painters

People from Reus

1995 deaths

Spanish watercolourists

1907 births