Century: 20th

Landscape

An artist of great technical precision, a master of watercolour painting, which was a medium much appreciated in the 19th century. The government of the First Republic sent him to Rome, where he lived for ten years, to study at the Academy of Rome. He had great international impact, as the market, with the art […]

Valencian landscape

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

Female figure

The Masrieras were a family of artists who ran their own goldsmith and jewellery business. They had ties to artistic circles and societies, both in terms of industry and business and culture. They were travellers with an interest in the latest trends. They travelled throughout Europe to the main artistic and cultural events of the […]

Female figure

Goldsmith, painter, stage designer and theatre director, he was the most famous member of the Masriera family. Each of the family members undertook a parallel artistic, literary and pictorial activity in their own personal way. The artist is best known for his work as a jeweller and particularly his contributions as an enameller.

Rosarito

Ramon Casas was interested in women’s fashion and this is reflected in the female portraits throughout his career. Júlia as model and definitive muse in the work of Ramon Casas has been a constant since he met her in 1905, with whom he lived since 1913 and they married in 1922. About 130 representations of […]

Portrait of playwright Joaquín Dicenta

Portrait of Joaquin Dicenta is an unsigned and undated work by the artist. The head of the masculine figure stands out against a dark background thanks to a powerful light effect. A virtuoso draughtsman, Ramon Casas manages to convey the vigour and personality of the figure through the expression of his gaze, the modelling and […]

Bust of a lady

Painter, draughtsman and illustrator. Alongside Santiago Rusiñol, he determined the new direction and the move towards artistic modernity in Barcelona. From a wealthy family who liked to travel, in the year 1881 at the age of 15, he went to Paris to study with Charles Auguste Emile-Duran, known as Carolus. Based on the resemblance, this […]

Gypsy woman sitting

Nonell painted figures of gypsies until 1907. With a sober, introspective and respectful look, he portrayed an old woman resting; the model was known as Grandma, of gypsy ethnicity. Reluctant to modernist aesthetics, his models were few and far between: Consol, the gypsy who provided him with his “grandmother”, represented in this work, his cousin […]