Century: 19th

Mar de Plata, Argentina

A landscape painter with a passion for maritime scenes, he was a student of Antoni Caba and Martí Alsina, and he spent long periods in several countries, including Paraguay, Argentina, Italy and the United States. As a painter, he sold many works, but due to the commercial failure of the grand exhibition at the Barcelona […]

Clouds

He went to Paris in 1892 and he began to associate with impressionist artists, leading to a change in his pictorial style. His colour pallet became lighter and he began using light blue, ochre and golden tones, starting to accentuate all the colours seen in the sea and rivers. He was continually drawn to the […]

Seascape

At the age of 57, in 1915, he had his first solo exhibition at the Sala Dalmau in Barcelona. The profits from this exhibition afforded him the financial backing of a group of followers, by way of association and in exchange for works. From then onwards, and until his death, he was able to spend […]

Green Landscape

A professional decorative painter, by which he earned his living, his apprenticeship was almost self-taught. He went to Madrid in 1884 to study the Spanish painters of the Golden Age and, thanks to a recommendation from Elisenda Cerdà, daughter of the architect Ildefons Cerdà, he became a student of Carlos de Haes, the Belgian artist, […]

Gypsy woman with Baby

A leading artist in the satirical and humorous press of Paris at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, he would alternate the themes of Flamenco and “La Espagnolade”, majas and gypsies, with that of the gallant and sheltered woman. Joan Cardona’s folkloric, visual and expressive style -Fauvist in the provocative use […]

Pulvis, cineris, nihil [Dust, ashes, nothing]

Santiago Rusiñol went to Tarragona in 1894 to visit and keep company with his friend Josep Yxart who was ill at the time. Critic and writer, Yxart had been part of the group of artists and writers of Barcelona’s Cau Ferrat, through Narcís Oller, and who endorsed Rusiñol in the theater and its first premieres. […]

Les hortènsies de la sabatera [The cobbler’s hydrangeas]

We know Rusiñol’s desire to represent a closed compositional space. In this painting that was presented at a Paris Salon, he paints a corner of a courtyard where he places a girl playing with a doll next to a wall on which there are pots of long-stemmed hydrangeas that cover the entire wall , with […]

Landscape with chickens

His work is rooted in Catalan realism, but in the last 20 years of his career, it underwent an evolution with the artist’s desire to modernise. He spent time in Rome and travelled to Paris and to the large international exhibitions on several occasions, giving him a grounding in modernity. Paisaje con gallinas and Paisaje […]

Landscape with doves

Forest figure

Influenced by the French naturalist school of the plein-air, inspired by idyllic romantic scenes within realistic elegant compositions, mainly genre scenes that had recently gained popularity. Due to his intellectual pursuits, he formed part of artistic and industrial societies and he was a leading and influential figure for painters and those around him. In 1915, […]