style: Modernism

Pulvis, cineris, nihil [Dust, ashes, nothing]

Santiago Rusiñol went to Tarragona in 1894 to visit and keep company with his friend Josep Yxart who was ill at the time. Critic and writer, Yxart had been part of the group of artists and writers of Barcelona’s Cau Ferrat, through Narcís Oller, and who endorsed Rusiñol in the theater and its first premieres. […]

Bust of a lady

Painter, draughtsman and illustrator. Alongside Santiago Rusiñol, he determined the new direction and the move towards artistic modernity in Barcelona. From a wealthy family who liked to travel, in the year 1881 at the age of 15, he went to Paris to study with Charles Auguste Emile-Duran, known as Carolus. Based on the resemblance, this […]

Portrait of playwright Joaquín Dicenta

Portrait of Joaquin Dicenta is an unsigned and undated work by the artist. The head of the masculine figure stands out against a dark background thanks to a powerful light effect. A virtuoso draughtsman, Ramon Casas manages to convey the vigour and personality of the figure through the expression of his gaze, the modelling and […]

Rosarito

Ramon Casas was interested in women’s fashion and this is reflected in the female portraits throughout his career. Júlia as model and definitive muse in the work of Ramon Casas has been a constant since he met her in 1905, with whom he lived since 1913 and they married in 1922. About 130 representations of […]

Landscape with doves

Landscape with chickens

His work is rooted in Catalan realism, but in the last 20 years of his career, it underwent an evolution with the artist’s desire to modernise. He spent time in Rome and travelled to Paris and to the large international exhibitions on several occasions, giving him a grounding in modernity. Paisaje con gallinas and Paisaje […]

Coat rack from Dalmases house

A coat rack by one of the leading artists of modernism, Antoni Gaudí. It is a piece of furniture and interior decoration that belonged to Casa Dalmases, of medieval origins, converted into one of the few Baroque palaces, located on Carrer Montcada in Barcelona. Later, in 1907 the house would be extended by Lluís Domènech […]

Little Girl

The little girl is the portrait of a girl, which has an equivalent in the extraordinary portrait “The little girl and the good companion”, from 1891, owned by the Museum of Montserrat which came from the Josep Sala i Ardiz collection. The composition in this oil painting on a very special support, a ceramic plate, […]