Celso Lagar Arroyo (Ciudad Rodrigo, 1891 - Seville, 1966) was a Spanish expressionist painter of the first generation of the School of Paris, where he lived most of his life.
In his native Ciudad Rodrigo, where he worked as a cabinetmaker's apprentice in his father's artisan workshop (Gumersindo Lagar carpentry), he went to Madrid for a brief stay where he frequented the Cason and the studio of the workshop of one of the best sculptors of the moment. , Miguel Blay.
The outbreak of the First World War will mark, in the life and work of Celso Lagar, the beginning of a new stage.
With the start of the Second World War its golden age will end.
At this time, his wife Hortense entered the Broca hospital and died in 1955.
In 2016, the legitimate heirs of the artist's intellectual property established the Celso Lagar Archive, an organization created with the purpose of protecting, developing and promoting knowledge of his work.
selected works
Au bord d'eau
1912
Oil on canvas (60x73)