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 […]

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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 […]

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La moda (Fashion)

Throughout history and despite all the difficulties they encountered, women fought for their dreams and started businesses that changed the lives of many people. In the 19th century, dressmakers and women’s clothing designers represented a profession that many artists echoed by illustrating the new trends in period magazines.

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Grandmother figure. Peanut theatre [Mysteries of the Inquisition]

As an illustrator, he worked at La Vanguardia and collaborated on magazines like L’Esquetlla de la Torratxa, Barcelona Cómica, Pèl&Ploma and Forma. On returning from his visits to Paris, he began his gypsy series, with a new and provocative language from the point of view of the more conservative artistic critics.

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Young man with a guitar

Artist trained in Barcelona and Paris, where he lived for long periods, and where, in 1921, he arrived to sign a contract with the gallery owner Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. There is a diversity of styles in his work. In Paris he became acquainted with the art of the impressionists and the avant-garde, mainly cubism, surrealism […]

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