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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Guitarist with companion

Traginers [Muleteers]

As a painter, he worked assiduously on landscapes. He also devoted himself to industrial artistic drawing, designing mosaics, stained glass and carpets, as well as mural painting in palaces and churches.

The shepherds

The washhouse – autumn

A versatile artist, his career spanned various disciplines: painter, draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, as well as enamel, origami, fashion, book illustration, scenography and costume design for ballet, theatre and cinema. In the 1920s, he settled in Paris and made visits to Biarritz. Within a classicism with a Mannerist style in the colour and form, poetic composition […]