Technic: Charcoal drawing on paper

Saint George

Self-portrait

With a dry, long face, furrowed with wrinkles and protruding cheakbones, overgrown beard and hair, and lively and expressive eyes, Francesc Gimeno is one of the most important draughtsmen of his time. And where he confirms this mastery is in his self-portraits, in terms of quality and number, as he is one of the Catalan […]

Caterina Massagué

Gimeno’s realism was troppo vero, linked to his life and everyday reality: the family and himself of whom many self-portraits have survived. The environment was the direct source of the artist’s subjects, and for economic reasons he always had to use models from his family. Outside the domestic sphere, he could never provide them. Far […]

Thoughtful young man