Antoni Clavé occupies one of the first ranks among the most important Spanish informal painters, sculptors and graphic artists.
Geared at the figuration of Pierre Bonnard or Edouard Vuillard in his early period, contact with Pablo Picasso, whom the emigrant Antoni Clavé met in Paris, brought decisive impulses for a gradual development to abstraction. As of the1950s, when the autodidact Antoni Clavé began to dedicate his time entirely to art, his more and more abstract personal style began to unfold. Antoni Clavé's powerful imagery, which emphasized the material, did not only find expression in paintings and collages, as Antoni Clavé even produced haptic effects by means of the demanding technique of carborundum etchings.
In 1978 the artist, who had shown works in numerous exhibitions all around the world, was honored with a large retrospective in the Parisian Musée d'Art Moderne. His works are in possession of the most renowned international museums.