Josep Grau Garriga was a Spanish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1929. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona have featured Josep Grau Garriga's work in the past.Josep Grau Garriga's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 50 USD to 7,852 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2010 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,852 USD for R茅volution Fran莽aise VI., sold at Lamas Bola帽o Auctions in 2024. Josep Grau Garriga has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Art Asia Pacific in April 2025. The artist died in 2011.
The year鈥檚 edition gathered 240 galleries from 42 countries, with Asia-Pacific galleries comprising more than half the participants鈥攖he highest representation from the region to date.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia began the celebration of its 15th anniversary in Brussels with an exceptional group exhibition featuring a comprehensive range of the artists it represents.
鈥
..Grau-Garriga introduced a new dimension into the art of tapestry where he took the traditionally figurative flat form and eliminated its expensive materials such as gold threads and silks...
鈥
鈥
..鈥淭apestry is the logical complement to architecture,鈥 says Josep Grau-Garriga as early as the 1970s, a decisive decade during which the artist pushed the genre to its limits...
鈥
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (Cloître Saint-Merri)
鈥
..Working without cardboard, Josep Grau-Garriga rapidly abandoned the traditional technique and claimed to favor, 鈥渁 tapestry for our times, coarse and harsh, that expresses our history.鈥 Through the years,...
鈥
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (Cloître Saint-Merri)
鈥
..By the early 1960s, his weavings gradually developed into sculptural textiles and a tactile medium; Grau-Garriga saw his work as a volume in space...
鈥
鈥
..Grau-Garriga constructed this sweeping, planar display of color and texture over four years and in its finished state the work hangs over twenty feet tall...
鈥