Ceferí Olivé i Cabré (born in

Reus Reus () is the capital of Baix Camp, in Camp de Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The area has long been an important producer of wines and spirits, and gained continental significance during the time of the Phylloxera plague. Currently it is known f ...

in 1907, died in the same town in 1995) was a Catalan painter.

Biography

Ceferí Olivé studied with master painter . He specialized in

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting metho ...

. He used to sign his paintings with his name in

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: Ceferino Olivé. Many of his paintings are

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landscapes. He lived most of his life in Reus, but also spent some time in Barcelona, where he painted railway scenes and

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s. He also travelled to some European countries. Most of his exhibitions were in Barcelona and Madrid and Bilbao.

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 The Creu de Sant Jordi (, in English language, English 'St George's Cross') is one of the highest civil distinctions awarded in Catalonia (Spain), surpassed only in protocol by the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Gold Medal of the G ...

in 1985. There is a street in Reus named after him.

External links

Museum in Reus

Olivé Cabré, Ceferí (or Ceferino)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Olive Cabre, Ceferi Artists from Catalonia 20th-century Spanish painters 20th-century Spanish male artists Spanish male painters People from Reus 1995 deaths Spanish watercolourists 1907 births