Century: 20th

One Thousand and One Nights

Emili Grau Sala was the son of a cartoonist who specialised in caricatures, Joan Grau Miró, creator of the Saló d’Humoristes in Barcelona. The painter lived for many years in France, moving between Paris, Honfleur and Deauville, where he enjoyed great success thanks to his luminous and cheerful painting, successor of post-impressionism. In his repertoire, […]

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Untitled

Catalan painter and illustrator of the Paris School who moved to the Montparnasse district, where he lived for 25 years. Grau Sala’s style, with a colourist base and many echoes of French post-impressionism, idealises pleasant and refined themes in harmonious, luminous and poetic compositions. His brushwork is fast and agile with abundant tonal nuances and […]

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Santiago Rusiñol

Chronicler of his time and a member of the “Els Quatre Gats” group, he made drawings of many of the singular characters around at that time and his artist friends, including, among others, Ramon Casas, Joan Cardona and Antoni Gaudí -for whom he worked as a draughtsman on the Sagrada Família project when he was […]

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View of Paris

In Paris he opened his own gallery called La Fenêtre Ouverte. Cézanne, Dalí, Gargallo, Derain, Dufy, Matisse, Miró, Picasso and Vlaminck were some of the artists who exhibited there. His proximity to the Champs Elysees allowed him to enter high Parisian society and make himself known. He moved to Paris in 1926, following the advice […]

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Grandmother figure. Peanut theatre [Mysteries of the Inquisition]

As an illustrator, he worked at La Vanguardia and collaborated on magazines like L’Esquetlla de la Torratxa, Barcelona Cómica, Pèl&Ploma and Forma. On returning from his visits to Paris, he began his gypsy series, with a new and provocative language from the point of view of the more conservative artistic critics.

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