Pierre Porretti

"Girl Flute Player, " Signed Original Print

2000

Artist Details: Pierre Porretti "Fisherman" 1991 Matted and Framed Original Hand-colored, Signed Photographic Print 12 x 16 Inches

Artist Details: Pierre Porretti "Aris and Cat" 1991 Matted and Framed Original Hand-colored, Signed Photographic Print 16 x 12 Inches

Enrique Montserrat Foj (1935-2022) - Girl playing the flute - Oil Oil on canvas glued to cardboard. Oil measures 46x38 cm. Frameless. Romantic cartoonist, especially for the foreign market, and also a gymnast. Cartoonist linked to Editorial Bruguera and its agency Creaciones Editoriales. She got her start drawing girls' or adventure comics in Stories and the Sissi Graphic Novel Supplement. Much of her work from the 1960s was aimed at the European market for young women's magazines through the Selecciones Ilustradas agency. Anecdotally, he collaborated with Marvel Comics, drawing a romantic comic based on a script by Stan Lee for the title My Love (later republished in Our Love Story), credited there as Enrique Monserratt. He retired from comics in the 1980s to focus on painting. He was also an Olympic gymnast, a member of the Barcelona Gymnastics Center and the Barcino Tennis Club. He was champion of Spain in the third category (1955) and third in the Spanish Artistic Gymnastics Championships (1961). He participated in the Mediterranean Games (1959) and in the Rome Olympic...

Signed lower right, "Julio Castillo" and painted circa 1960. A substantial, mid-century figural watercolor showing a boy playing the flute and a girl watching with rapt attention.