In the history of art, Édgar Neville is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Édgar Neville as Spanish painter (1899–1967).
Édgar Neville was born at Madrid in 1899. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Colegio del Pilar and Instituto Cardenal Cisneros.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as writer, painter and film director.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Spain shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Édgar Neville died in 1967, aged 68. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
