style: Modern painting

Still life

Despite his reputation as a portrait painter, he was a painter who cultivated still life, an admirer and debtor of Cézanne, as well as the Baroque authors. This still life with three upside-down partridges, dish with eggs, two-handled pot, apples, table cloth and background picture, like his still lifes in general, follow the traditional symbolism […]

L’Antònia

Most of Alfred Sisquella and Oriol’s works are portraits, but he also painted highly realistic still lifes or landscapes around Sitges. Of the portraits, the Antònies stand out, those of his wife, Antònia Rambla. The will in the capture of the figure is in the moments of internalization, but it puts it in a restful […]

Still life

Seascape. L’Estartit

Painted in 1933, during his trip along the Costa Brava, which he made next to Rusiñol and Meifrèn. The color technique learned from the impressionists. The use of color with the intention of reflecting light gives better accuracy of reality and gives soul and immensity to the beach.

Martinet bridge

After two centuries, and between the physical geography of the different Catalan counties and the experiences of an artist and his connection with the territory, we find the painter Joaquim Terruella working in Martinet de Cerdanya. It represented a bridge, which takes us into an impressionistic landscape, arid and dry, with the counterpoint of the […]

Female figure

Manola

The work of Francesc Miralles, with a technique influenced by the work of Marià Fortuny and the “tableautin” trend (small, precious and easily understandable paintings, exotic and anecdotal in nature like the Spanish aesthetic), imposed by the art market and the French dealer Goupil connected with the refined and elegant tastes of the bourgeoisie of […]

Mar de Plata, Argentina

A landscape painter with a passion for maritime scenes, he was a student of Antoni Caba and Martí Alsina, and he spent long periods in several countries, including Paraguay, Argentina, Italy and the United States. As a painter, he sold many works, but due to the commercial failure of the grand exhibition at the Barcelona […]

Clouds

He went to Paris in 1892 and he began to associate with impressionist artists, leading to a change in his pictorial style. His colour pallet became lighter and he began using light blue, ochre and golden tones, starting to accentuate all the colours seen in the sea and rivers. He was continually drawn to the […]

Seascape

At the age of 57, in 1915, he had his first solo exhibition at the Sala Dalmau in Barcelona. The profits from this exhibition afforded him the financial backing of a group of followers, by way of association and in exchange for works. From then onwards, and until his death, he was able to spend […]