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 […]

The kitchen. Paris

After a long period of study, he moved to Paris in 1926, where he met avant-garde artists like Picasso, Juan Gris and Pablo Gargallo, who he helped through the gallery-restaurant that he opened in the French capital. He knew and promoted the avant-garde artists, but his own work conveys a schematic realism, with refined brushstrokes […]

Prats de Santa Coloma, Andorra [Meadows in Santa Coloma]

In 1932, he made the first of his three visits to Andorra. He arrived by car to Santa Coloma, accompanied by his wife, son, driver and assistant. This oil painting is a good representation of his post-impressionist style. There are three almost parallel areas –the field, the mountain and the sky–, bright and contrasting greens, […]

Vilanova street and a bell tower

The small urban composition with anonymous figures and the reuse of the canvas -there is a rural architectural composition on the reverse that was not made by the painter- demonstrate how materials were recycled during the Civil War. They are small works on wood or cardboard that could be sold more easily or exchanged for […]