Bonifacio (1934) Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Bonifacio (1934) Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 29, 2024
BONIFACIO ALFONSO GÓMEZ FERNÁNDEZ; Sin título…
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BONIFACIO ALFONSO GÓMEZ FERNÁNDEZ Sin título
Arte Subastas Bilbao
Oct. 22, 2024
Boniface Alfonso. Untitled - Female
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Ink drawing on paper. Signed and dated (61) on the right side.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Oct. 22, 2024
Bonifacio Alfonso. Untitled
Est: -
Silkscreen on paper. Signed and dated (72) in the lower right corner. Numbered (PA - Author's Proof) in the lower left corner. Published by Juana Mordó and Galería de la Motta, Madrid. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Works 1968-1982. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S. p. Cat. No.: 123. Rep. Col.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Sep. 25, 2024
Bonifacio, Alfonso
Est: €500 - €800
Bonifacio, Alfonso San Sebastián, 1933 - 2011 35 x 27 cm, R. "El hombre labo", 1987. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated. Galeria Juan Mordó, Madrid (reverse with gallery label). Private property, Baden-Württemberg. Bonifacio, Alfonso San Sebastián, 1933 - 2011 35 x 27 cm, R. "El hombre labo", 1987. Öl auf Leinwand. In Öl unten links signiert und datiert sowie rückseitig signiert, datiert und betitelt. Galeria Juan Mordó, Madrid (rückseitig mit Galerieetikett). Privatbesitz, Baden-Württemberg.
Nagel Auction
Sep. 24, 2024
Bonifacio. Untitled
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Etching on paper. Signed and dated (1989) in the lower right corner. Numbered (28/100) in the lower left corner. Published by Galería Carmen Durango. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos: Bonifacio Alonso Obras Gráfica Completa 1968-1982. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S. p. Cat. No.: 199. B/W Rep.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Sep. 24, 2024
Bonifacio. Untitled
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Etching on Guarro paper. Signed and dated (80) in the lower right corner. Numbered (69/100) in the lower left corner. Edited by Carmen Durángo, Valladolid. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Works 1968-1982. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S. p. Cat. No.: 199. Rep. Col.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Jul. 23, 2024
Bonifacio. No title
Est: -
Lithograph on paper. Signed and dated (86) in the lower right corner. Numbered (PA - Artist's Proof) in the lower left corner. Folds in the paper.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Jul. 23, 2024
Bonifacio. No title
Est: -
Lithograph on paper. Signed and dated (87) in the lower right corner. Numbered (25/50) in the lower left corner.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Jun. 24, 2024
ALFONSO GOMEZ BONIFACIO San Sebastian (1934) / (2011) "Untitled", 1974
Est: €390 - €520
Ink on paper Dedicated, signed, located "Barcelona" and dated in pencil at the bottom Measurements: 68.5 x 48 cm
Ansorena
Jun. 24, 2024
ALFONSO GOMEZ BONIFACIO San Sebastian (1934) / (2011) "Untitled", 1975
Est: €450 - €600
Mixed media on paper Signed and dated on the bottom in pencil Measurements: 35 x 26 cm
Ansorena
May. 29, 2024
Bonifacio Alfonso Gómez Fernández (San Sebastián, 1933 - 2011) "Bishop and crowd"
Est: €900 - €1,200
Bonifacio Alfonso Gómez Fernández (San Sebastián, 1933 - 2011) "Bishop and crowd" Drawing Signed and dated 1960 50 x 62 cm 900 - 1.200 €
Greco Subastas
May. 13, 2024
"BONIFACIO"; BONIFACIO ALFONSO GÓMEZ FERNÁNDEZ, (San Sebastián, 1934 - 2011). Untitled, 2001. Ink drawings on paper (x3). Signed, dated and dedicated.
Est: €700 - €900
"BONIFACIO"; BONIFACIO ALFONSO GÓMEZ FERNÁNDEZ, (San Sebastián, 1934 - 2011). Untitled, 2001. Ink drawings on paper (x3). Signed, dated and dedicated. Measurements: 25 x 17 cm; 29 x 21 cm; 49 x 80 cm (frame). Fond of drawing and painting since he was a child, Bonifacio lived a hard childhood in the Casa de Misericordia of his hometown, after his father was shot in 1936. From his adolescence he was forced to work in all kinds of jobs to survive, without being able to devote himself fully to his passion for painting. During these years he focused especially on bullfighting, until a goring made him abandon bullfighting for good. As for his artistic work, in 1954 Bonifacio obtained his first recognition, the First Prize of Painting of San Sebastian, for his work "Cristo Cubista", and in 1955 he entered the School of Arts and Crafts of that city, to finally begin his artistic training. Two years later, in 1957, he began to devote himself exclusively to painting. In 1958 he held his first individual exhibition in Guipúzcoa, and that same year he traveled to Paris with Rafael Ruiz Balerdi, coming into contact there with Mompó, Cuixart and Saura, among others. After a season exhibiting at the Ateneo Guipuzcoano and at the Aranaz Darrás gallery, in 1966 he finally achieved commercial success at the Grises gallery in Bilbao, where the artists of El Paso used to exhibit. Around this time he meets Fernando Zóbel, who buys several paintings for the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca and encourages him to move to that city. In this city he will come into contact with the Spanish avant-garde, establishing relationships with prominent artists such as Saura, José Guerrero and Zóbel, with whom he will work and hold exhibitions. He will therefore be very close to the Cuenca Group, although his work moves away from the aesthetic formalism of the latter from the beginning to take a personal path of expressionist features, closer to international avant-garde movements such as the CoBrA group or Willem de Kooning. Already during these years, we can appreciate in his painting the forceful line that will mark his language, determining broken, decomposed or unfinished figures, and combined with a fluid and dynamic color, based on stains. Since then he will be known both in Spain and abroad. Bonifacio will be part of the group of artists related to the Juana Mordó gallery, which presented him at the Basel and Cologne fairs. His definitive consecration would come in the seventies and eighties. Praised by Jorge Oteiza, Bonifacio received awards such as the National Engraving Prize in 1993 or the Arts Prize of the Community of Madrid in 2005. In 2007 the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid dedicated a wide retrospective to him, accompanied by the documentary "La cicatriz de la pintura" (The scar of painting). Bonifacio is currently represented in the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca and in the Fundación Antonio Pérez, among other collections.
Setdart Auction House
Apr. 24, 2024
Alfonso Bonifacio. No title
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Screen printing on paper. Signed and dated (85) in the lower right corner. Numbered (16/50) in the lower left corner.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Mar. 20, 2024
Bonifacio. No title
Est: -
Screen printing on paper. Signed and dated (72) in the lower right corner. Numbered (PA - Author's Proof) in the lower left corner. Edited by Juana Mordó and Galería de la Motta, Madrid. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S.p. Cat. No.: 122. Rep. Cabbage.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Mar. 20, 2024
Bonifacio. No title
Est: -
Lithograph on paper. Signed and dated (86) in the lower right corner. Numbered (PA - Artist's Proof) in the lower left corner.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Feb. 21, 2024
Bonifacio. Triana
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Lithograph on paper. Signed and dated (78) in the lower right corner. Numbered (89/90) in the lower left corner. Titled at the bottom center. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos.: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S.p. Cat. No.: 192. Rep. Cabbage.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Feb. 21, 2024
"BONIFACIO" ALFONSO GÓMEZ (San Sebastian, 1934 - 2011). Untitled, 1979. Collage, gouache and pencil on paper. Presents stamp on the back of the Grapa Gallery (Madrid) and label of the Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery (Madrid).
Est: €300 - €400
"BONIFACIO" ALFONSO GÓMEZ (San Sebastian, 1934 - 2011). Untitled, 1979. Collage, gouache and pencil on paper. Presents stamp on the back of the Grapa Gallery (Madrid) and label of the Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery (Madrid). Signed and dated in the lower right area. Measurements: 15 x 22 cm; 23,5 x 30 cm (frame). Fond of drawing since his childhood, the beginning of his artistic career is situated in 1955, once he abandons his incipient career as a bullfighter. That year he won first prize in a painting competition in San Sebastian with a cubist-influenced composition, which encouraged him to enter the School of Arts and Crafts, from which he was soon expelled. After various and disparate occupations, he began to work as a draftsman in an advertising studio. His friendship with the painter Julio García Sanz allows him to refine the rudiments of his pictorial craft. In 1958 he held his first individual exhibition, which took place at the Ateneo de Guipuzcoa in San Sebastian. After a short experience in Paris, where he met Mompó, Cuixart and Saura, among others, he settled in Bilbao, where he came into contact with the Grises gallery, a space where the artists of El Paso usually exhibited in the Biscayan capital, and where he presented several solo exhibitions in the second half of the 1960s. Encouraged by Fernando Zobel, in 1968 he decides to move to Cuenca, where he establishes a close professional relationship with Antonio Lorenzo, who introduces him to the techniques of engraving. In 1970 he signed a contract with the Juana Mordó gallery, to which he remained linked until the beginning of the 90s. During the 70's his painting is enriched; without renouncing the graphic value of the drawing, he reinforces the intense emotional charge that emerges from his works through a greater attention to the chromatic treatment of his compositions, more evident in the figures than in the backgrounds. After a brief period of greater variegation in his work, which coincides with extended stays in Mexico, in 1989, when he moved to Madrid, he was commissioned to design twenty-six stained glass windows for the Cathedral of Cuenca, in a project in which Gerardo Rueda and Gustavo Torner, among others, were also invited to participate. With more than thirty original editions, the quality and originality of his production earned him the National Engraving Prize, awarded by the Calcografía Nacional in 1993.
Setdart Auction House
Feb. 21, 2024
"BONIFACIO" ALFONSO GÓMEZ (San Sebastian, 1934 - 2011). Untitled, 1979. Watercolor and graphite on paper. Presents stamp on the back of the Grapa Gallery (Madrid) and label of the Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery (Madrid)
Est: €300 - €400
"BONIFACIO" ALFONSO GÓMEZ (San Sebastian, 1934 - 2011). Untitled, 1979. Watercolor and graphite on paper. Presents stamp on the back of the Grapa Gallery (Madrid) and label of the Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery (Madrid). Signed and dated in Measurements: 15 x 22 cm; 23,5 x 30 cm (frame). Fond of drawing since his childhood, the beginning of his artistic career was in 1955, once he abandoned his incipient career as a bullfighter. That year he won first prize in a painting competition in San Sebastian with a cubist-influenced composition, which encouraged him to enter the School of Arts and Crafts, from which he was soon expelled. After various and disparate occupations, he began to work as a draftsman in an advertising studio. His friendship with the painter Julio García Sanz allows him to refine the rudiments of his pictorial craft. In 1958 he held his first individual exhibition, which took place at the Ateneo de Guipuzcoa in San Sebastian. After a short experience in Paris, where he met Mompó, Cuixart and Saura, among others, he settled in Bilbao, where he came into contact with the Grises gallery, a space where the artists of El Paso usually exhibited in the Biscayan capital, and where he presented several solo exhibitions in the second half of the 1960s. Encouraged by Fernando Zobel, in 1968 he decides to move to Cuenca, where he establishes a close professional relationship with Antonio Lorenzo, who introduces him to the techniques of engraving. In 1970 he signed a contract with the Juana Mordó gallery, to which he remained linked until the beginning of the 90s. During the 70's his painting is enriched; without renouncing the graphic value of the drawing, he reinforces the intense emotional charge that emerges from his works through a greater attention to the chromatic treatment of his compositions, more evident in the figures than in the backgrounds. After a brief period of greater variegation in his work, which coincides with extended stays in Mexico, in 1989, when he moved to Madrid, he was commissioned to design twenty-six stained glass windows for the Cathedral of Cuenca, in a project in which Gerardo Rueda and Gustavo Torner, among others, were also invited to participate. With more than thirty original editions, the quality and originality of his production earned him the National Engraving Prize, awarded by the Calcografía Nacional in 1993.
Setdart Auction House
Jan. 24, 2024
Bonifacio. Traffic light
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Lithograph on Arches paper. Signed and dated (78) in the lower right corner. Titled at the bottom center. Numbered (88/90) in the lower left corner. Edited by Galería de la Motta, Madrid. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S.p. Cat. No.: 193. Rep. Cabbage.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Jan. 24, 2024
Boniface. No title
Est: -
Lithograph on paper. Signed and dated (82) in the lower right corner. Numbered (26/40) in the lower left corner.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Jan. 24, 2024
Bonifacio. No title
Est: -
Screen printing on paper. Signed and dated (72) in the lower right corner. Numbered (PA - Artist's Proof) in the lower left corner. Paper with oxidation spots. Edited by Juana Mordó. Printed by Abel Martín. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S.p. Cat. No.: 125. Rep. Cabbage.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Dec. 27, 2023
Bonifacio. Untitled - Cuenca, global city
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Screen printing on paper. Signed and dated (1995) in the lower right corner. Numbered (X/L) in the lower left corner. Edited by Fundesco and UIMP.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Dec. 27, 2023
Bonifacio. Untitled - Cuenca, global city
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Screen printing on paper. Signed and dated (1995) in the lower right corner. Numbered (10/100) in the lower left corner. Edited by Fundesco and UIMP.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Dec. 19, 2023
ALFONSO GOMEZ BONIFACIO San Sebastian (1934) / (2011) "Green Man", 1988
Est: €5,250 - €7,000
ALFONSO GOMEZ BONIFACIO San Sebastian (1934) / (2011) "Green Man", 1988 Oil on canvas Signed and dated on the bottom. On the back signed, dated and titled. With label from the Juana Mordo Gallery, Madrid Measurements: 60 x 81 cm
Ansorena
Nov. 22, 2023
Bonifacio. El encuentro
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Óleo sobre lienzo. Firmado y fechado (84) en la parte inferior. Al dorso, firmado y fechado. Procedencia: - Colección particular.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Nov. 22, 2023
Boniface. Untitled
Est: -
Serigrafía sobre cartulina. Firmado y numerado (13/20) en el ángulo inferior derecho. Editado por la Galería Seiquer, Madrid.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Nov. 22, 2023
Boniface. Untitled
Est: -
Serigrafía sobre papel. Firmada y fechada (1995) en el ángulo inferior derecho. Numerada (81/100) en el ángulo inferior izquierdo. Editada por Fundesco y UIMP.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Nov. 06, 2023
ALFONSO GOMEZ BONIFACIO San Sebastián (1934) / (2011) "Untitled", 1987-91
Est: €750 - €1,000
Oil on panel Signed and dated in the upper right corner. Measurements: 33 x 33 cm
Ansorena
Oct. 25, 2023
Bonifacio. No title
Est: -
Lithograph on paper. Signed and dated (86) in the lower right corner. Numbered (PA - Artist's Proof) in the lower left corner.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Oct. 25, 2023
Alfonso Bonifacio. insects
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Etching on paper. Signed and dated (72) in the lower right corner. Numbered (38/50) in the lower left corner. Edited by Juana Mordó. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos.: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S.p. Cat. No.: 161-175. Rep. Cabbage.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Sep. 27, 2023
Boniface. No title
Est: -
Lithograph on paper. Signed and dated (82) in the lower right corner. Numbered (26/40) in the lower left corner.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Jul. 18, 2023
ALFONSO GÓMEZ BONIFACIO San Sebastián (1934) / (2011) "Untitled", 1987-91
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Oil on panel Signed and dated in the upper right corner. A certificate of authenticity from Santiago Catalá could be provided at the buyer's request Measurements: 33 x 33 cm
Ansorena
Jul. 04, 2023
BONIFACE - Untitled
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BONIFACIO San Sebastián 1934-2011 Untitled Paint and wax on paper Signed Size 39.5 x 29.5 cm
Subastas Segre
Jun. 28, 2023
Boniface Alfonso. Untitled - Female
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Ink drawing on paper. Signed and dated (61) on the right side.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Jun. 28, 2023
Boniface. toys
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Oil on canvas. Signed and dated (82) in the lower right corner. On the back, signed and dated. Provenance: - Gift of the artist. - Private collection, Cuenca.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Jun. 28, 2023
Bonifacio. Norberto El Pata and Pitin
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Folder with five etchings on Guarro paper. Signed and dated (75) in the lower right corner. Numbered (PA - Artist's Proof) in the lower left corner. Includes editor folder. Estampas de la cometa 17 series. Edited by Gustavo Gili, Bacelona. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos.: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S.p. Cat. No: 142-146. Rep. Cabbage.
Duran Arte y Subastas
May. 30, 2023
Boniface. Untitled
Est: -
Silkscreen on paper. Signed and dated (1995) in the lower right corner. Numbered (81/100) in the lower left corner. Edited by Fundesco and UIMP.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Apr. 15, 2023
Bonifacio Alfonso Composicion Gris 1970 Oil Ptg
Est: $500 - $800
Bonifacio, Alfonso Gomez Fernandez (Spanish, 1933-2011), Composicion Gris y Mancha Negra [Gray and Black Spot Composition], 1970, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, titled on the verso, 35 x 43 inches in a painted white wood frame. Provenance: Galeria Juana Mordo, Madrid, with a label affixed to the stretcher. Bonifacio was an unusual and somewhat eccentric painter, who went from the world of bullfighting (he was an apprentice matador) to that of visual arts, devoting himself fully to painting from 1958 onwards, when he created a personal style to which he always remained faithful.
Concept Art Gallery
Mar. 22, 2023
Boniface. will be ashes
Est: -
Folder with five etchings and aquatint on Velin d'Arches paper. All of them signed and dated (78) in the lower left corner. Numbered (9/78) in the lower right corner. Texts printed on Super Alpha paper. Numbered and signed in the circulation justification. Includes original packaging. Edited by Galería Carmen Durango, Valladolid. This is the third monograph in the "Marzales" collection, which also houses five unpublished sonnets by José Bergamín. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos.: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S.p. Cat. No: 194-198. Rep. Cabbage.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Feb. 27, 2023
"BONIFACE"; BONIFACIO ALFONSO GÓMEZ FERNÁNDEZ, (San Sebastián, 1934 – 2011). Untitled, 1989. Pencil and mixed technique on paper. Presents a label on the back of the Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery (Madrid).
Est: €400 - €500
"BONIFACIO"; BONIFACIO ALFONSO GÓMEZ FERNÁNDEZ, (San Sebastián, 1934 - 2011). Untitled, 1989. Pencil and mixed media on paper. With label on the back of the Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery (Madrid). Signed and dated in the lower right-hand corner. Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid. Size: 35 x 50 cm; 70 x 54 cm (frame). Bonifacio's aesthetics have always been difficult to classify, somewhere between surrealism and expressionism, his works showed a deformed, dreamlike and personal reality. In this case the work presents a set of forms characteristic of his personal imaginary, a concept taken to the extreme, which becomes another apparently different being as in his famous birds or for example in the figures that decorate the stained glass window of the north nave of the Cathedral of Cuenca, which were designed the same year in which this work was made. Fond of drawing and painting since he was a child, Bonifacio lived a hard childhood in the Casa de Misericordia in his native city, after his father was shot in 1936. As a teenager he was forced to do all kinds of jobs in order to survive, without being able to devote himself fully to his passion for painting. During these years he focused especially on bullfighting, until a goring caused him to abandon bullfighting for good. As for his artistic work, in 1954 Bonifacio received his first award, the First Prize for Painting in San Sebastián, for his work "Cristo cubista", and in 1955 he entered the School of Arts and Crafts in that city, where he finally began his artistic training. Two years later, in 1957, he began to devote himself exclusively to painting. In 1958 he held his first individual exhibition in Guipúzcoa, and that same year he travelled to Paris with Rafael Ruiz Balerdi, where he came into contact with Mompó, Cuixart and Saura, among others. After a period exhibiting at the Ateneo Guipuzcoano and at the Aranaz Darrás gallery, in 1966 he finally achieved commercial success at the Grises gallery in Bilbao, the gallery where the artists of El Paso used to exhibit. Around this time he met Fernando Zóbel, who bought several paintings from him for the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca and encouraged him to move to that city. In this city he came into contact with the Spanish avant-garde, establishing relationships with prominent artists such as Saura, José Guerrero and Zóbel, with whom he worked and held exhibitions. He was therefore very close to the Cuenca Group, although his work moved away from the latter's aesthetic formalism from the outset to take a personal path with expressionist traits, closer to international avant-garde movements such as the CoBrA group or Willem de Kooning. It was around this time that we can already see in his painting the forceful line that was to mark his language, with broken, decomposed or unfinished figures, combined with a fluid and dynamic colour, based on stains. From then on he became known both in Spain and abroad. Bonifacio was part of the group of artists associated with the Juana Mordó gallery, which presented him at the Basel and Cologne fairs. His definitive consecration would come in the seventies and eighties. Praised by Jorge Oteiza, Bonifacio received awards such as the Premio Nacional de Grabado in 1993 and the Premio de las Artes de la Comunidad de Madrid in 2005. In 2007, the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid dedicated an extensive retrospective to him, accompanied by the documentary "La cicatriz de la pintura". Bonifacio is currently represented in the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca and the Fundación Antonio Pérez, among other collections.
Setdart Auction House
Feb. 27, 2023
"BONIFACIO"; BONIFACIO ALFONSO GÓMEZ FERNÁNDEZ, (San Sebastián, 1934 – 2011). Untitled, 1981. Oil on canvas. It presents a label from the Juana Mordó Gallery (Madrid). Signed and dated in the lower right area.
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
"BONIFACIO"; BONIFACIO ALFONSO GÓMEZ FERNÁNDEZ, (San Sebastián, 1934 - 2011). Untitled, 1981. Oil on canvas. Presents the label of the Galería Juana Mordó (Madrid). Signed and dated in the lower right area. Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid. Measurements: 130 x 97 cm; 144 x 188 cm (frame). The artist's painting process has been described by the BBVA collection in this way "Bonifacio did not start painting on the blank canvas: once it was prepared in the studio, the artist would splash and stain the canvas with whatever substance he could find at hand. After resting for several days, he would recover the canvas and copy a previously executed drawing onto it with charcoal. On this basis he would freely apply colour in all directions, resulting in a composition of great expressiveness. A fan of drawing since childhood, he began his artistic career in 1955, when he abandoned his incipient career as a bullfighter. That year he won first prize in a painting competition in San Sebastián with a cubist-influenced composition, which encouraged him to enter the School of Arts and Crafts, from which he was soon expelled. After various and disparate occupations, he began to work as a draughtsman in an advertising studio. His friendship with the painter Julio García Sanz enabled him to refine the rudiments of his pictorial craft. In 1958 he held his first individual exhibition, which took place at the Ateneo de Guipúzcoa in San Sebastián. After a short experience in Paris, where he met Mompó, Cuixart and Saura, among others, he settled in Bilbao, where he came into contact with the Grises gallery, a space where the artists of El Paso usually exhibited in the Biscayan capital, and where he presented several solo exhibitions in the second half of the 1960s. Encouraged by Fernando Zobel, in 1968 he decided to move to Cuenca, where he established a close professional relationship with Antonio Lorenzo, who introduced him to the techniques of engraving. In 1970 he signed a contract with the Juana Mordó gallery, to which he remained linked until the early 1990s. During the 1970s his painting became richer; without renouncing the graphic value of drawing, he reinforced the intense emotional charge that emerges from his works by paying greater attention to the chromatic treatment of his compositions, more evident in the figures than in the backgrounds. After a brief period of greater variegation in his work, which coincided with prolonged stays in Mexico, in 1989, the year he moved to Madrid, he was commissioned to design twenty-six stained glass windows for Cuenca Cathedral, in a project in which Gerardo Rueda and Gustavo Torner, among others, were also invited to participate. With more than thirty original editions, the quality and originality of his production earned him the National Engraving Prize, awarded by the Calcografía Nacional in 1993.
Setdart Auction House
Feb. 07, 2023
BONIFACE - Untitled
Est: -
BONIFACIO San Sebastián 1934-2011 Untitled. 1975 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated 5/5/1975 Size 18.5 x 17.5 cm
Subastas Segre
Dec. 28, 2022
Bonifacio. Serán Cenizas
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Folder with five etchings and aquatint on Velin d'Arches paper. All of them signed and dated (78) in the lower left corner. Numbered (9/78) in the lower right corner. Texts printed on Super Alpha paper. Numbered and signed in the circulation justification. Includes original packaging. Edited by Carmen Durango Gallery, Valladolid. This is the third monograph in the "Marzales" collection, which also houses five unpublished sonnets by José Bergamín. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos.: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S.p. Cat. No: 194-198. Rep. Cabbage.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Dec. 28, 2022
Bonifacio. Untitled
Est: -
Silkscreen on paper. Signed and dated (1995) in the lower right corner. Numbered (81/100) in the lower left corner. Edited by Fundesco and UIMP.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Dec. 28, 2022
Boniface. toys
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Oil on canvas. Signed and dated (82) in the lower right corner. On the back, signed and dated. Origin: - Gift of the artist. - Private collection, Cuenca.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Oct. 25, 2022
Bonifacio. Untitled
Est: -
Drawing made in ink on cardboard. Signed, dated (2/16/74) and dedicated at the bottom.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Oct. 25, 2022
Bonifacio. Toys
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Oil on canvas. signed and dated (82) in the lower right corner. On the back, signed and dated. Provenance: - Gift of the artist. - Private collection, Cuenca.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Sep. 28, 2022
Bonifacio. Sopas y manjares
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Folder with 15 holes made in Rives BFK paper. All of them signed and dated (76) in the lower right corner. Numbered (56/60) in the lower left corner. The folder recovers lines of historical kitchens from the Roberto de Nola Cookbook translated for the first time into Catalan in 1520. Edited by Yves Rivière, Paris. Bibliography: - CARRILLO, Carlos.: Bonifacio Alonso Complete Graphic Work 1968-1982. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Bilbao, 1982-1983. S. p. Cat. No.: 161-175. Rep. Cabbage.
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