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  • 1950-57
  • 1957-62
  • 1962-68
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  • 1984-96

WORK / 1957-62

The second period, 1957 – 1961, is that of searching.

Messa has come to Mollet, Catalonia, he has a job which leaves him some free time; he gets to know Mossén Lluís Bonet and searches in books and in art. He starts to become a “painter” more than anything but dividing this with his job of selling motorbikes. His style is clearly cubist and constructional. Working firmly with a spatula he produces several independent works and his series of “bulls” and “female forms”. You can see the power in his movements.

Homage to Modigliani

Homage to Modigliani

1961 - 25x33 - Watercolour on paper
Prostitute

Prostitute

1960 - 61x50 - Oil on hardboard
Act of banderillas (barbed sticks)

Act of banderillas (barbed sticks)

1960 - 75x56 - Oil on canvas
Pass

Pass

1960 - 75x56 - Oil on canvas
The prisoner and the zebra

The prisoner and the zebra

1960 - 66x58 - Oil on paper
The brave, the coward and the victim

The brave, the coward and the victim

1960 - 81x65 - Oil on canvas
What the bull sees

What the bull sees

1960 - 81x65 - Oil on canvas
Ceramic still life

Ceramic still life

1958 - 51x38 - Oil on hardboard
Romance of the Civil War Lorca

Romance of the Civil War Lorca

1959 - 46x32 - Oil on canvas, palette knife
Female harlequin

Female harlequin

1960 - 28x20 - Gouache on paper
Studio in Mollet

Studio in Mollet

1960 - 81x65 - Oil on canvas, palette knife
Cartesian construction number 2

Cartesian construction number 2

1959-60 - 17x27? - Oil on canvas, palette knife
Cartesian construction number 4

Cartesian construction number 4

1960 - 14x23? - Oil on canvas, palette knife
Cartesian construction number 1

Cartesian construction number 1

1959-60 - 14x23 - Oil on canvas, palette knife
Cartesian construction number 5

Cartesian construction number 5

1960-61 - 14x23? - Oil on canvas, palette knife
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