Santiago Rusiñol

Barcelona, Sala Parés, 1929
Barcelona, Sala Parés, 1934
Barcelona, Sala Parés, 1936
Barcelona, Sala Parés, 1973

Josep de C. Laplana, Santiago Rusiñol, el pintor, l'home, Montserrat, 1995, p. 461, no. 20.1.7, catalogued & illustrated
Josep de C. Laplana & Mercedes Palau-Ribes, La pintura de Santiago Rusiñol. Catalèg sistemàtic, Barcelona, 2004, p. 202, no. 20.1.7, catalogued & illustrated

Original canvas. There are no signs of retouching visible under UV light. Apart from some slight yellowing to the varnish over time, a very light stretcher mark around the extreme edges, and a handful of tiny spots of paint flaking in the foliage in the lower left and lower right, this work is in very good original condition. Held in a Spanish-style black and gold-painted wood and plaster frame.
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Painted in 1929, the present work depicts Parc Badés in Arbúcies, a town lying about fifty kilometres to the northeast of Barcelona. The gardens of the Casa Badés became the subject of no fewer than fifteen of Rusiñol's paintings between 1927 and 1929.

Rusiñol's burgeoning success as a painter enabled him to concentrate almost completely on the subject closest to his heart, Spain's gardens and landscapes. From 1900 he travelled widely across the regions of Spain, painting in Gerona, Horta, Cataluña, Valencia, Ibiza, Mallorca, Játiva, La Granja and Aranjuez. Wherever he went, Rusiñol recorded the sometimes domestic, at other times enigmatic, forms and rich vegetation of the shrubbery, orchards, flowerbeds and arboretums that he discovered.

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.