JOSEP ROCA SASTRE (Terrassa, 1928 - Barcelona, 1997). "Interior", 1967. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. With Sala Parés label on the back. Measurements: 92,5 x 65 cm; 113 x 86 cm (with frame). Trained in Barcelona, from the 1960s onwards Roca began to develop a personal, independent style and created his own language. His proposal focused on recovering the gaze of the close and the everyday, the familiar. He exhibited for forty years at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, and also showed his work in other Spanish cities, as well as in the United States. In 1966 he was awarded the Sant Jordi prize by the Diputació de Barcelona, and two years later the medal of honour at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris. In 1980 he was made a member of the Sant Jordi Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1993 he was awarded the Quadern Prize of the Fundació Amics de les Arts i de les Lletres de Sabadell (Friends of the Arts and Letters Foundation of Sabadell). Roca Sastre developed a figurative style with intimate themes, applying a personal and subjective gaze to his interior scenes as well as to his urban and natural landscapes. Since his death, retrospectives of Josep Roca s work have been held at La Pedrera and the Muncunill (Terrassa), Oriol (Barcelona) and Juan Oliver Maneu (Palma de Mallorca) galleries. His work is kept in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña.