Gender: Figurative

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 […]

Maja y torero [Maja and bullfighter]

In Paris, Emili Grau Sala joined a group of Spanish artists and became a leading figure in the Paris School. From then onwards, his work was highly influenced by Pierre Bonnard and Raoul Doufy, with many echoes of French post-impressionism. Shortly before creating this painting, in 1936, the artist was awarded one of the prestigious […]

La nena del gat negre [The girl with the black cat]

Figurative composition representing a girl and a black cat, in a terrace or garden, possibly at the villa in Honfleur where the painter lived. Emili Grau Sala has a very colourful series on “children”, where the compositions of the pictorial spaces are a of a strong colour pallet. The quick, broad and thick brushstrokes, the […]

Dama con guante blanco [Lady with white glove]

The 1930s marked a milestone in the artistic career of Pere Pruna. He obtained international recognition and success on winning second place in the Carnegie Prize in 1928. He was a friend of Diaghilev -who commissioned him to make decorations and figurines for his ballets-, Jean Cocteau, Eric Satie and Stravinsky. He acquired clients of […]

Woman and her toilette