Vicenç Badalona Ballestar (1929 – 7 July 2014) was a Spanish painter and author.

Life and work

Vicenç Badalona Ballestar, born in 1929, studied at the School of Art at La Lotja and at Baixas Academy in Barcelona. Among the best known works of Ballestar are certainly his titles to images for the

Dime novel The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related form ...

s series called John Sinclair. Over the decades he has also created numerous other designs and illustrations, including for the Western bestselling series GF Unger, another imprint of the German '' Bastei Lübbe'' publishing house. Ballestar was a member of the Catalan painter Watercolor Association and received an honorary medal of the association. 1988 one of his paintings was accepted into the City Museum of Nimes, where he often exhibited, besides the cities of

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, Barcelona, Ceret and Collioure. Like many other Spanish artists, his works were admired at the beginning in collective exhibitions in Spain and Italy. In addition to the German ''Bastei-Verlag'' he worked also for the publishers Hale, Cleveland, Semic, Senic and Winther and beyond that Ballestar has published as an author numerous textbooks on painting. As an artist, he is represented with posters in the collection of the ''Donau/Bund Österreichischer Gebrauchsgraphiker''. His funeral was held at the cemetery Tanatorio Sancho de Ávila in Barcelona on 9 July 2014. Ballestar was honorary president of the Agrupació d'Aquarel.Vicente Ballestar in: Agrupació d'Aquarel
/ref>

External links

Website Vicenç Ballestar
(Catalan)

*
Vicente Ballestar of John Sinclair
– YouTube

Literature

Vicente Ballestar in: ''Who's who in graphic arts: an illustrated world review of the leading contemporary graphic and typographic designers, illustrators and cartoonists; with a short illustrated history of the graphic arts'', De Clivo, 1982

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ballestar, Vicenc Badalona 1929 births 2014 deaths 20th-century Spanish painters 20th-century Spanish male artists Spanish male painters 20th-century Spanish male writers Painters from Barcelona