Century: 19th

Beach houses

This landscape artist, a follower of the luminist school, developed his painting style giving absolute prominence to light, softer and more diffuse in nature. He often introduced perspectives with very pronounced and deep diagonal lines that depicted simple and realistic spaces, lending great importance to the material qualities of the elements, land, roads and whitewashed […]

Procession to the Vinyet hermitage in Sitges

Century XVIII

Landscape. El Ter [Ter river]

Antoni Ros portrayed multiple landscapes around the waters of the Ter River. This work is not dated but could have been made at the beginning of 1900, dates in which the painter portrayed on several occasions similar scenarios of stagnant waters of the River Ter, such as Closes del Ter (1908) or Dusk (1905). In […]

Seascape. L’Estartit

Painted in 1933, during his trip along the Costa Brava, which he made next to Rusiñol and Meifrèn. The color technique learned from the impressionists. The use of color with the intention of reflecting light gives better accuracy of reality and gives soul and immensity to the beach.

Martinet bridge

After two centuries, and between the physical geography of the different Catalan counties and the experiences of an artist and his connection with the territory, we find the painter Joaquim Terruella working in Martinet de Cerdanya. It represented a bridge, which takes us into an impressionistic landscape, arid and dry, with the counterpoint of the […]

Female figure

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, […]