Catalan painter and illustrator of the Paris School who moved to the Montparnasse district, where he lived for 25 years. Grau Sala’s style, with a colourist base and many echoes of French post-impressionism, idealises pleasant and refined themes in harmonious, luminous and poetic compositions. His brushwork is fast and agile with abundant tonal nuances and few shadows. With watercolour as his main vehicle of expression, the painter did not fully identify with any of the “isms” of the time. From the 30s onwards, he also began to work as a poster designer, costume designer and decorator for different performing arts works.