Technic: Oil on canvas

Landscape

Domingo Soler was a stage designer and painter known mainly for his landscapes and watercolours. His peaceful and pleasant landscapes, painted with a very controlled pallet, depict reality from a post-romantic perspective, with a certain lyricism and great serenity.

Vall de Núria

He often painted Montesquiu and the river Freser, at night and day, from one bank or the other. Over a period of more than 30 years, he spent many summers in this area, sometimes in the company of other painters. He also painted mountains, particularly the nooks and valleys of Núria, to which he had […]

Countryside road

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Ribera de Cardós. Pallars Sobirà

A synthetic representation of the landscape of Montserrat and the unique massif of the mountain range, through the strength of the compactness of the elements. The painter conveys the lively movement and balance of the massif through the force of modernity and the avant-garde brushstrokes. A slow work, in favour of colour and material, in […]

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 […]

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