For the first time in large format, the most important works from one of the richest periods of Catalan painting: Modernism.

The yearning for European modernity had been felt by the Catalan cultural world since the 1880s, becoming evident when a few architects – Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, etc. – began to build within radically new parameters.

A similar yearning for modernity emerged in painting, establishing itself around 1890. Nevertheless, sporadic signs of radical novelty can already be found in some early works by Ramon Casas, showing unequivocal traces of Impressionism – then considered the most modern pictorial style worldwide.

But even before Casas took the definitive step, some older painters had already made the first move towards modernity. These were primarily landscape artists with a strong predominance of light, such as Joan Roig Soler. However, Ramon Casas and Santiago Rusiñol were the definers and central core of the new movement. And with them, in the various forms that such a rich movement entails, were the great names of Catalan painting of the time: Alexandre de Riquer, Josep M. Tamburini, Adrià Gual, and Gaspar Camps stand out among the Symbolists, as does the unique world of Aristides Maillol, the great Roussillon sculptor. Lluís Graner and Francesc Gimeno also excelled as figures of strong personal character, and Joan Llimona was the soul of the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, created then under the auspices of Bishop Torras i Bages. Finally, the circle closes with the so-called Postmodernists, featuring important figures such as Hermen Anglada Camarasa, Joaquim Mir, Isidre Nonell, Ramon Pichot, or Picasso himself, and, with them, Lluïsa Vidal, undoubtedly the best Catalan female painter of the Modernist era.

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Price: €195