style: Modern painting

Parisian views II

Hayloft

Hayloft

Portrait

The painter was born in Cerdanyola del Vallès, and on a scholarship from Barcelona City Council in 1907, he went to Paris, where became acquainted with the work of modernism. Due to various historical events and his own personality, Togores was influenced by different styles throughout his life, from the influence of Cézanne on his […]

Green Valira river banks in Canillo

Rafael Benet worked as a painter, critic and art historian. He began his training in Terrassa with his uncle, the modernist painter Joaquím Vancells, at the art school of Francesc d’Assís Galí, and also at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, where he was president from 1928 to 1930. As an art historian, he carried […]

Young man with a guitar

Artist trained in Barcelona and Paris, where he lived for long periods, and where, in 1921, he arrived to sign a contract with the gallery owner Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. There is a diversity of styles in his work. In Paris he became acquainted with the art of the impressionists and the avant-garde, mainly cubism, surrealism […]

Parisian views I

Still life

Vase with flowers

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 […]