Century: 20th

Composition with figures

An atypical and avant-garde artist, he worked apart from the official artistic world and with numerous appearances in group exhibitions. He developed his work within different “isms” without being forced to join any specific movement. It synthesizes various avant-gardes, from cubist language to constructivist, futurist, superrealism and geometric abstraction. His main references were the metaphysical […]

Child and photographs

Meticulous and technically accurate painter in the classic sense, his themes and style refer to a kind of surrealist universe and a magical realism very much his own. Precise in the brushwork, his work develops within the figurative artistic genre. Stylized images, often ironic, where the scene is sudden due to the detail of some […]

Andorra

Sanvisens came to Andorra following in the footsteps of Joaquim Mir, of whom he was a follower, as well as the Llotja School, where he was a professor. The landscapes became the main subject of his paintings. In the painting Andorra, despite the diagonal construction and the vanishing point perspective of the landscape, he paints […]

La 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 […]

Vase with flowers

The 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 […]

Gentleman’s toast

Genre painting or portraits that reflect the life of the bourgeoise and their environment. His work is in a historiscist style that allows him to display his talent depicting the detailed garments of previous periods. In Barcelona they called this “anecdotism”, whereby realism would capture a snapshot of reality, an anecdote. Once in Paris, with […]

Female 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. […]

El dineret de la Santa Creu [Small coins for the Holy Cross]

Procession to Montserrat