Technic: Oil on wood

Maria Rosa

The 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 […]

The shepherds

Female figure

Vilanova street and a bell tower

The small urban composition with anonymous figures and the reuse of the canvas -there is a rural architectural composition on the reverse that was not made by the painter- demonstrate how materials were recycled during the Civil War. They are small works on wood or cardboard that could be sold more easily or exchanged for […]

The kitchen. Paris

After a long period of study, he moved to Paris in 1926, where he met avant-garde artists like Picasso, Juan Gris and Pablo Gargallo, who he helped through the gallery-restaurant that he opened in the French capital. He knew and promoted the avant-garde artists, but his own work conveys a schematic realism, with refined brushstrokes […]

Winter landscape

Rafael Durancamps liked to paint meticulously. The execution of his compositions and arrangements are very careful and his method was that of a perfectionist. In spite of the novelty and advantages associated with the modern industrial production of paint tubes, he decided to continue making his colour pallet with natural pigments, in the old way.

Horse cart. Paris

Night scene, centered on a white horse with a cart inside a warehouse in one of the Paris markets. It is an oil sketch that the painter took live from nature and that he later used for larger compositions to present in exhibitions or competitions. A frequent theme in the painting of the first Parisian […]

Landscape

Lluís Rigalt, professor and director of the School of La Llotja, is considered the first naturalist landscape painter in Catalonia and the forerunner of a school to which such important painters as Martí Alsina, Modest Urgell and Joaquim Vayreda belonged. His paintings are painted in oil, meticulous and elegant, straddling the idealized romantic landscape and […]