Gender: Allegory

Untitled

Olympian

Artist proof (P/A; P/A I; P/A II). These are the definitive prints that the artist himself made before printing the numbered edition, and they make up no more than 10% of the entire run. They are proofs sold by the artist, with his signature, and in some cases they are numbered using Roman numerals.

One Thousand and One Nights

Emili Grau Sala was the son of a cartoonist who specialised in caricatures, Joan Grau Miró, creator of the Saló d’Humoristes in Barcelona. The painter lived for many years in France, moving between Paris, Honfleur and Deauville, where he enjoyed great success thanks to his luminous and cheerful painting, successor of post-impressionism. In his repertoire, […]

Dante’s Inferno. Dedication in interior page of the edition of “The Divine Comedy”

The three travelers

The three travelers is the title of the charcoal and gouache drawing done to illustrate the story of Enric Nicolle in the magazine Hispania, in 1899. In the end it was not published. They look like the three wise men of the East, as if following a comet’s tail with a popular and not ostentatious […]

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 […]