Art Deco Style Painting (Homage to Fabio Hurtado's El Circo)

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A painting created by the artist "Symon" as an homage to Fabio Hurtado's painting entitled El Circo.

Hurtado was born … Read more A painting created by the artist "Symon" as an homage to Fabio Hurtado's painting entitled El Circo.

Hurtado was born in Madrid on January 26, 1960 to an Italian mother and a Spanish father. Inclined to the arts from a young age, he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1984 he graduated and established his first studio as a painter and photographer.

In 1995, he was admitted to the Academy of Modern Art in Rome and received a Medal of Honor from Queen Sofía of Spain, as well as a medal at the Salon de Otoño from the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors in the same year.

In 1998, one of his pieces made the cover of the Financial Times′ Telecoms World magazine. Years later, the Ulster Museum acquired Hurtado's Three Seated Women and a Dog (1997) for its collection.

He has been included in several reference books on Spanish art. He is known for his portrayals of women at the beginning of industrial modernity, often using an Art Deco style in his work.

This piece is an original painting, obtained through an estate, un-stretched. It was stretched in February 2026 and given a simple, studio style wood slat frame to honor the work, and refer to the manner in which it may have been produced. Marks along the edge of the canvas were photographed before framing, indicate a 2010 date. See less