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Lot 79
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Santiago Rusiñol

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Description

  • Santiago Rusiñol
  • El Montseny (Montseny)
  • signed S. Rusiñol lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 98 by 110cm., 38½ by 43¼in.

Provenance

Sala Parés, Barcelona
Fernando Pintane (purchased from the above in 1929)
Private Collection
Sale: Durán, Madrid, 21 December 2004, lot 180
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Barcelona, Sala Parés, 1929 (as El Montseny), no. 7 or 15
Valencia, Iturrino-Rusiñol. Jardines de España, 1993, illustrated in the catalogue (as Parque Badés d'Arbúcies, circa 1895-1899)

Literature

M. Alcántara Gusat, in Las Noticias, 6 November 1929, p. 2
Josep de C. Laplana, Santiago Rusiñol, el pintor, l'home, Montserrat, 1995, p. 461, no. 20.3.3, catalogued & illustrated
Galeria Antiqvaria, XVII, January 1999, p. 77, illustrated
Josep de C. Laplana & Mercedes Palau-Ribes, La pintura de Santiago Rusiñol. Catàleg sistemàtic, Barcelona, 2004, no. 20.3.3, catalogued & illustrated, and L'obra i la critica, fig. 194, p. 227, illustrated

Condition

Original canvas. Apart from a 40cm line of restoration with retouching visible under UV light in the upper right quadrant, this work is in good overall condition, and is ready to hang. Held in a traditional black and gold-painted frame.
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Catalogue Note

The mountainous region of Montseny lies about one hundred kilometres north of Barcelona, and its peaks, forests and streams were an inspiration to Rusiñol. The present work, executed in 1929, is the earlier of two views of El Montseny known by the artist; a second, compositionally very similar but with a stream occupying the foreground (Laplana & Palau-Ribes no. 20.3.5; now lost) was painted a year later and shown at the Sala Parés in 1931.

The charismatic leader of Catalan Modernism, and a founder of Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona, Rusiñol travelled widely and spent extended periods in Paris. Notwithstanding his position as a leading member of the international avant-garde, however, it was in Spain, away from the clamour of the Parisian metropolis, that he was able to explore the full range of his resonant palette and where many of his most powerful and evocative works were completed.