Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866–1932) was a Catalan Spanish artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond; he was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets. Also, a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernism.
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2. Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866–1932) was a Catalan Spanish artist. Living
through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he
was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual,
economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond;
he was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the
audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in
the Barcelona streets. Also a graphic designer, his posters and
postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as
modernism.
In 1890s, Casas was one of many artists exercising their artistic
talents around the Moulin de la Galette in Paris. Casas and his friend,
and fellow artist, Santiago Rusinol, constructed several exhibitions
back in their native city of Barcelona, that exhibited their first-
hand experiences of the French culture and art. Over time, these
exhibitions quickly evolved into a center of progressive painting
scenes within the Modernist movement. Casas became a leading
figure in the revival of Catalan culture, and was one of the first
Spanish artists to introduce French Modernisme to Spain in the late
nineteenth-century.
Self-portrait, Abadía de Montserrat
17. Portrait of Emili Fernández, “Napoleon”,
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC,
Barcelona
Hombre leyendo – Retrato
del fotógrafo “Napoleón”
Emilio Fernandez Tiffon,
1893
18. Portrait of Pablo Picasso
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona
19. Self-portrait dressed as a flamenquero, 1883
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona
22. Estudio del natural para el retrato del rey Alfonso XIII, 1904
(73.5 x 63 cm) Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Monasterio de San Benet de Bages (100x81 cm)
54. Retrato de Arcadi Mas i
Fondevila
Museu Nacional d'Art de
Catalunya - MNAC,
Barcelona
55. Retrato de Aureliano de
Beruete
Museu Nacional d'Art de
Catalunya - MNAC,
Barcelona
Retrato
de
Juli
Vallmitjana
Fundación
Cultural
Privada
Manuel
Rocamora.
Barcelona
58. Retrato de
Joaquín Torres
García
Museu Nacional
d'Art de
Catalunya -
MNAC,
Barcelona
Retrato de
Joaquim Casas
i Carbó
Museu Nacional
d'Art de
Catalunya -
MNAC,
Barcelona
59. Retrato de
Miguel de
Unamuno
Museu Nacional
d'Art de
Catalunya -
MNAC,
Barcelona
Retrato de
Mariano Benlliure
(1904-1905)
Museu Nacional
d'Art de Catalunya
- MNAC,
Barcelona
60. Ramon Casas’
portrait of early
20th century
French composer
and pianist Erik
Satie was
donated to
Northwestern
University Library
by Mrs.
Chauncey
McCormick, one
of the daughters
of Charles
Deering, in 1956.
It has traveled
around the world
to be included in
major museum
exhibitions.
El Bohemio, Poet of Montmartre
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre exhibition, The National Gallery of Art (March-June 2005)
and The Art Institute of Chicago (July-October 2005). Barcelona and Modernity exhibition,
The Cleveland Institute of Art (October 2006-January 2007) and The Metropolitan Museum of
Art (March-June 2007), to Paris’ Grand Palais for an exhibition on the history of Bohemian
artists and a subsequent exhibit, also on Bohemian artists, at the Fundación MAPFRE in
Madrid and to Germany in January 2014
61. Sound: Isaac Albéniz - Capricho Catalan (Arthur Zachary Backwoods, piano)
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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu
2014
Saló de Ramon Casas - Albeniz Palace Barcelona
Editor's Notes
Portrait by Ramon Casas conserved at MNAC in Barcelona.