Montserrat
Raurich trained at the Llotja School with the professors Antoni Caba, Lluís Rigalt and Eliseu Meifrèn. Between 1894 and 1899 he settled in Rome, and when he returned he decided that he would always paint landscapes in Catalonia, calling the series: Visions Mediterrànies. The writers who knew or lived with the work of the impressionists […]
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A popular painter, the press dubbed him the peintre de la rue. Paris City Council awarded him the honorary title of peintre de la ville de Paris with a pass allowing him to set up his easel anywhere in the city, including on the balconies of official buildings.
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Fluvià river, Olot
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Port de la Selva
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Church interior. Cadaquès
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Seascape, beach and figures
The painting illustrates with light and color a simple episode of people working by the sea. Build a reality, skillfully and quickly, in the Impressionist way. A student at the Llotja school, he specialized in landscape and marine painting, which gave him fame and clients due to the great demand for this type of work.
Read moreLa era trillando [The threshing floor]
In 1883, he moved to Paris and was admitted to the Académie Carrières de Paris, where he was tutored by one of the one of the most renowned French academy painters of the time, Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), and where he met artists such as Carolus Duran and the sculptor August Rodin. In his works, mainly […]
Read moreThe blacksmith
A student of the painters Claudio Lorenzale and Antonio Caba at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, at the age of twenty, the Barcelona City Council granted him the Fortuny grant to complete his training in Rome, where he met Joaquín Sorolla and Arcadi Mas i Fontdevila. In August 1898, the artist travelled through […]
Read moreFemale figure back
Son of a leading painter, Modest Urgell, who he himself called a patum, he undertook a search for his own style and treatment of colour and light inherited from French impressionism. Shortly before the creation of this interior composition of the female figure, he had his first solo exhibition at the Sala Parés in 1917. […]
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