AGUSTÍN IBARROLA, Abatimiento de los emigrantes, c.1960

A powerful expressionist linocut from the politically charged early career of one of Spain’s most socially engaged postwar artists. Created during Ibarrola’s years of activism and affiliation with Equipo 57, this linocut captures the desolation of Spanish emigrants through an austere composition of compressed faces and dark tonal contrasts. The work belongs to his period of militant realism, where form and ideology merge in protest against the social conditions of the 1960s.

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Title: AGUSTÍN IBARROLA, Abatimiento de los emigrantes, c.1960
Artist / Author: Agustín Ibarrola (Basauri, 1930–2024)
Date: c.1960
Edition: 268/500 (actual edition under 50)
Medium / Materials: Linocut, signed in pen and numbered
Dimensions: Plate: 64.5 × 50 cm / Framed: 90 × 70 cm
Condition: Excellent