Francisco Durrio
Francisco Durrio (Born in Valladolid in 1868, deceased with Paris in 1940), is a Sculpteur and Spanish Céramiste.
Biography
After having finished its studies with the Academy of Beautiful arts of San Fernando in 1885 it leaves for Paris where it meets Gauguin, whose friendship will influence ceramics that it will produce at that time.
It exposes for the first time its works in 1896, in particular with the exposure of Modern art of Bilbao of 1900. In 1901 it is installed in an apartment of the Bateau-Lavoir , that to its request it yields to Picasso. In 1905 it gains the contest to set up a monument with the musician Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga with Bilbao. Durrio is very estimated by the Mailler critics but also Apollinaire, and Morice especially with regard to the sculptural treatment of its ceramics.
Its vast circle of relations and the extraordinary collection of paintings that it had, makes it very influential at the time where begin the constitution of important collections of modern art in Europe.
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