Gender: Maritime

Fishing at the beach

One of the first painters to approach landscape directly from nature, en plein air. He started from rural naturalism at the workshop of his master, Ramon Martí Alsina, with whom he would remain friends, but he progressively stripped away the superfluous elements from the landscape, gradually evolving towards a freer, lighter and more modern approach.

Cadaquès

Josep Ma Mallol had difficulties painting outdoors due to a congenital pathology in his limbs, preventing him from cultivating landscape themes more often. It mainly represents study subjects such as still life and portrait. In this work, the painter recreates for us an exceptional Cadaqués beach with a poetic and plastic beauty outside the avant-garde, […]

Sailboat

Brother of the landscape artist Josep Amat, he did architecture during the years that Lluís Domènech i Montaner was director. An outstanding draughtsman and watercolourist, and passionate about the sea and boats, he opted for marine themes, coastal landscapes, views of ports, boats and ships. After the Civil War he obtained a permit to study […]

Sant Feliu de Guixols, resting on the walk

A post-impressionist painter, with agile brushstrokes and vibrant colours typical of open air painting. A personal friend of Joaquim Mir, he spent time in Vilanova i la Geltrú and also Montserrat, where he met Emili Grau Sala, with whom he would travel to Paris for the first time. Considered a painter of the Paris school, […]

Boats

Port de la Selva

Seascape, beach and figures

The painting illustrates with light and color a simple episode of people working by the sea. Build a reality, skillfully and quickly, in the Impressionist way. A student at the Llotja school, he specialized in landscape and marine painting, which gave him fame and clients due to the great demand for this type of work.

Seascape. L’Estartit

Painted in 1933, during his trip along the Costa Brava, which he made next to Rusiñol and Meifrèn. The color technique learned from the impressionists. The use of color with the intention of reflecting light gives better accuracy of reality and gives soul and immensity to the beach.

Mar de Plata, Argentina

A landscape painter with a passion for maritime scenes, he was a student of Antoni Caba and Martí Alsina, and he spent long periods in several countries, including Paraguay, Argentina, Italy and the United States. As a painter, he sold many works, but due to the commercial failure of the grand exhibition at the Barcelona […]

Seascape

At the age of 57, in 1915, he had his first solo exhibition at the Sala Dalmau in Barcelona. The profits from this exhibition afforded him the financial backing of a group of followers, by way of association and in exchange for works. From then onwards, and until his death, he was able to spend […]