Century: 20th

Three figures and white houses

Ignasi Gil visited Ibiza for the first time in the 30s, and he was fascinated by the sight of all the white and the peasant women’s dresses. He painted genre landscapes all over the island and portraits of peasants in the impressionist style, which sought spontaneity in the brushstrokes, movement and luminosity. In modern art, […]

By the river

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.

Poblet

Fish

Catalan landscape

Landscape with rocks

Paisatge amb tanca [Landscape with fence]

Nonell formed at the Llotja de Barcelona. Between the years 1894 and 1896 the landscape was the genre of the first years in Nonell’s work. He went to Sant Martí de Provençals, with his box and palette of colors to paint small landscapes, being part of the Sant Martí group, with Ricard Canals, Ramon Pitxot, […]

Landscape with sheep

Barcelona painter of English descent decided to go to Olot, to personally treat the painter he admired, Joaquim Vayreda. To go from Barcelona to Olot, a town that at the time was still walled, was a fifteen-hour journey. Influenced by the French realist painters of the Barbizon school, he also traveled to Paris on the […]

Around Montornès del Vallès

The landscape depicts a small forest, a path, a row of trees, some farmland and a mountain ridge. The composition is divided into two parts, the lower half with the road and vegetation and the upper half with the cloudy sky. In his pictorial language, the painter of this period moves away from the most […]