Technic: Oil on canvas

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 […]

The monks’ garden at Montserrat Abbey

Joaquím Mir had a long association with the monastery of Montserrat and its monks, from his youth until his death. In 1931, he moved there with his wife and son. In early January 1934, he presented his works on Andorra that he painted in the autumn of 1933 at the monastery’s library before exhibiting them […]

Clearing on the Montserrat mountain

The vibrant and modern scenes of the nightlife, bohemia and leisure of the Parisian “fin de siècle”, dominated by female figures, were left behind when he settled in Mallorca in 1914, where he would develop the landscape genre. During the Civil War, he took refuge at the abbey of Montserrat, creating paintings of the mountainous […]

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, […]

Masquerade ball

A painter and art critic, he was tied to the modernist movement in its English Pre-Raphaelite-inspired symbolist aspect, at the service of sentimental art. In this female representation, prominent are the flesh tones of the two young women, exalted and flushed by the celebration of the masquerade ball, filling the pictorial scene with an atmosphere […]

Olot landscape

On behalf of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he traveled to Italy with the sculptor Joan Rebull, to learn about the methods of artistic teaching that they later put into practice, with the town council of Tarragona and the Generalitat, In the city of Tarragona he developed a project to renew and make the artistic education […]

Merceditas

Valencian gardens

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, […]