style: Modernism

Landscape

He is perhaps the Catalan artist with the least work, with the least history and one of the most mentioned. Little work and little history because he committed suicide at the age of twenty, on February 17, 1901, in the Hippodrome restaurant in Paris. The reason: love sickness. He is one of the most mentioned […]

Self-portrait

In 1917, he organised a grand exhibition of French artists at the request of, among others, Ramon Casas, Anglada Camarasa, Josep Ma Sert, Joaquim Mir and Santiago Rusiñol. In thanks, the French government awarded the painter with the medal of the Legion of Honour. In 1918, he painted numerous portraits. He travelled to Paris to […]

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 […]

Paris city

Valencian gardens

Merceditas

The blacksmith

A student of the painters Claudio Lorenzale and Antonio Caba at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, at the age of twenty, the Barcelona City Council granted him the Fortuny grant to complete his training in Rome, where he met Joaquín Sorolla and Arcadi Mas i Fontdevila. In August 1898, the artist travelled through […]

La era trillando [The threshing floor]

In 1883, he moved to Paris and was admitted to the Académie Carrières de Paris, where he was tutored by one of the one of the most renowned French academy painters of the time, Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), and where he met artists such as Carolus Duran and the sculptor August Rodin. In his works, mainly […]

Nimfa

A frequent painter of the Symbolist environments of Paris, much of his work focused on symbolism, representing characters from mythology, fairies and nymphs with flowers, musical instruments, in idealized settings in gardens and near lakes or the sea. Symbolism is a current of art at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of […]

Les hortènsies de la sabatera [The cobbler’s hydrangeas]

We know Rusiñol’s desire to represent a closed compositional space. In this painting that was presented at a Paris Salon, he paints a corner of a courtyard where he places a girl playing with a doll next to a wall on which there are pots of long-stemmed hydrangeas that cover the entire wall , with […]