He is perhaps the Catalan artist with the least work, with the least history and one of the most mentioned. Little work and little history because he committed suicide at the age of twenty, on February 17, 1901, in the Hippodrome restaurant in Paris. The reason: love sickness. He is one of the most mentioned artists because he was a childhood friend of Pablo Picasso. Both frequented Les Quatre Gats, shared a studio in Barcelona and went to Paris together, where they shared the studio left to them by Isidre Nonell. Picasso dedicated “La Vida” to him, an exemplary painting of his blue period.
Casagemas is best known in his portraitist-caricaturist side, but he also made landscapes, mainly marine, where the color he experimented with is the main protagonist. His brushstrokes are syncopated, dry, fauve, and he uses the colored space with bright ochres, cadmium yellows and the right touches of red. Landscape of the coast is a composition that is considered contemporary with Landscape with a large tree, a work that forms part of the collection of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.