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 […]
Read moreComposition with figures
An atypical and avant-garde artist, he worked apart from the official artistic world and with numerous appearances in group exhibitions. He developed his work within different “isms” without being forced to join any specific movement. It synthesizes various avant-gardes, from cubist language to constructivist, futurist, superrealism and geometric abstraction. His main references were the metaphysical […]
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Read moreEl dineret de la Santa Creu [Small coins for the Holy Cross]
Read moreGentleman’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 […]
Read moreMilitary manoeuvres
A painter of military scenes, chronicler of his time and disseminator of military culture due to his fascination for the army and military materials, particularly horses and cavalry detachments. This depiction of cavalry manoeuvres offers a symmetrical precision in its composition and sense of rhythm and movement to suggest the mass of riders, with the […]
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Read moreThe washhouse – autumn
A versatile artist, his career spanned various disciplines: painter, draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, as well as enamel, origami, fashion, book illustration, scenography and costume design for ballet, theatre and cinema. In the 1920s, he settled in Paris and made visits to Biarritz. Within a classicism with a Mannerist style in the colour and form, poetic composition […]
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Read moreTraginers [Muleteers]
As a painter, he worked assiduously on landscapes. He also devoted himself to industrial artistic drawing, designing mosaics, stained glass and carpets, as well as mural painting in palaces and churches.
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