Raurich trained at the Llotja School with the professors Antoni Caba, Lluís Rigalt and Eliseu Meifrèn. Between 1894 and 1899 he settled in Rome, and when he returned he decided that he would always paint landscapes in Catalonia, calling the series: Visions Mediterrànies. The writers who knew or lived with the work of the impressionists (Zola, Gautier), talked a lot about “les taches” as opposed to the previous academic painting, in which the shapes were formed. In Raurich’s case, like the post-impressionist writers influenced by the new form of painting, the concern for capturing light, atmosphere and the pictorial material led them to define the forms for stains of colour, more attentive to capturing the ambience of the light and shadow than the precise outline of the shape itself. The vertical composition separating the space with three snow-covered trees, heavily impastoed and standing out against a scene of softly luminous, monochrome scene of browns and whites, depicts a lonely winter’s day. Many of the painter’s works were owned by the industrial collector and patron of the arts, Lluís Plandiure. Raurich presented the same works with different titles at various exhibitions, and he did not like to date his works, so that they would become timeless pieces.

Oil on canvas

47x61 cm

Nicolau Raurich, 1871 - 1945