is jose maria sert considered a great painter?

Question

he was a muralist that painted the walls and ceilings in rockefeller center in nyc, and the walls at the league of nations in switzerland. i like these works very much, but i realize they would be considered very old fashioned when they were created. does anyone know where you can find more of his works?

Answer 1

He was one of the foremost living mural painters of his time. That is what they said in a New York Times article when he was commissioned to work in the mural:

"Sponsors of the $250,000,000 mid-town commercial and amusement enterprise reported that "three of the foremost living mural painters," Frank Brangwyn of England, Diego Rivera of Mexico, and Jose Maria Sert of Spain, had been commissioned to execute the nine large panels which will form the decorative feature of the main corridor in the seventy-story RCA Building".

Frank Brangwyn, Jose Maria Sert and
Diego Rivera to Do Nine Mural Panels.
October 10, 1932
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma04/hess/RockRivera/newspapers/NYTimes_10_10_1932.html

This one of his paintings, from the collection of Coco Chanel, 1940 (Sold by Christie's:
http://www.christies.com/promos/jun05/5310/promo_gallery.asp?page=5&language=english

Sert played an important role in saving aintings, masterpieces by Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo. taken from the National Museum and the homes of wealthy madrileños to Perpignan, France, to arrange for their transfer to Geneva.

"Also in Perpignan popped up Jose Maria Sert, Spain's best known modern mural painter. As Generalissimo Francisco Franco's art representative, he wanted to check over the paintings which may soon —under the Loyalists' own terms—become Rebel Spain's property. Señor Sert declared himself satisfied that the paintings had been taken good care of, that they were all intact."

Time Magazine
Monday, Feb. 13, 1939
Refugee Art

So, yes: he is considered a graet paiter.

Answer 2

Jose Maria or Josep Maria Sert and Badía, 1876-1945) Spanish Painter, n. and m. in Barcelona. His first liking by the decorative painting evolved later towards the mural, that dealed with solemn form, grandiloquent, with a style that denotes the influence of Tiépolo and Goya and accuses, sometimes, an excessive baroque style. It worked in Paris (1900) and Italy, arrived at academic from the one from Beautiful Arts and was added cultural of the Spanish embassy before the government of Vichy. Accomplishments hers were the murals of the Waldorf New York Astoria, the Society of Nations in Geneva and of the temple of San Telmo in San Sebastián. Its second work of decoration of the cathedral of Vich - first it was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War raised controversial forts, but cause admiration by the greatness that in him knew to print. Artist of international projection, at the time of his death had completed diverse sketches of decorations with expressive dedication to several countries. Their rest rest in the cathedral of Vich by express desire his.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Yes. He was one of the great painters.

Answer 5

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