Century: 20th

Landscape

Domingo Soler was a stage designer and painter known mainly for his landscapes and watercolours. His peaceful and pleasant landscapes, painted with a very controlled pallet, depict reality from a post-romantic perspective, with a certain lyricism and great serenity.

Vall de Núria

He often painted Montesquiu and the river Freser, at night and day, from one bank or the other. Over a period of more than 30 years, he spent many summers in this area, sometimes in the company of other painters. He also painted mountains, particularly the nooks and valleys of Núria, to which he had […]

Countryside road

Green Valira river banks in Canillo

Rafael Benet worked as a painter, critic and art historian. He began his training in Terrassa with his uncle, the modernist painter Joaquím Vancells, at the art school of Francesc d’Assís Galí, and also at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, where he was president from 1928 to 1930. As an art historian, he carried […]

Sant Llorenç de Munt

Golden landscape. Cerdanya

A disciple of Eliseu Meifrèn and Joaquim Mir, among others, and professor at the Escola de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. The landscapes chosen are mainly of around Deià (Mallorca), Port de la Selva, Puigcerdà and Cerdanya. A painter from a period in the history of Catalan landscape painting, from the Noucentisme generation returning to […]

Montserrat

A synthetic representation of the landscape of Montserrat and the unique massif of the mountain range, through the strength of the compactness of the elements. The painter conveys the lively movement and balance of the massif through the force of modernity and the avant-garde brushstrokes. A slow work, in favour of colour and material, in […]

Young man with a guitar

Artist trained in Barcelona and Paris, where he lived for long periods, and where, in 1921, he arrived to sign a contract with the gallery owner Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. There is a diversity of styles in his work. In Paris he became acquainted with the art of the impressionists and the avant-garde, mainly cubism, surrealism […]

Restaurant interior

Portrait

The painter was born in Cerdanyola del Vallès, and on a scholarship from Barcelona City Council in 1907, he went to Paris, where became acquainted with the work of modernism. Due to various historical events and his own personality, Togores was influenced by different styles throughout his life, from the influence of Cézanne on his […]