Lot 73
  • 73

Santiago Rusiñol

Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
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Description

  • Santiago Rusiñol
  • Pati de Játiva (Terrace in Játiva, Valencia)
  • signed S. Rusiñol lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 83 by 104cm., 32½ by 41in.

Provenance

Sale: Subastas Brok, Barcelona, June 1987, lot 905
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Barcelona, Sala Parés, 1920, no. 8

Literature

Josep de C. Laplana, Santiago Rusiñol, el pintor, l'home, Barcelona, 1995, p. 439, no. 22.4
Josep de C. Laplana and Mercedes Palau-Ribes O'Callaghan, La Pintura de Santiago Rusiñol. Catàleg Sistemàtic, Barcelona, 2004, vol. III, p. 110, no. 13.4.2, catalogued and illustrated

Condition

Original canvas. There are no signs of retouching visible under ultraviolet light. Overall this work is in excellent original condition, and is ready to hang.
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Catalogue Note

Painted in 1919,  the present work depicts a secluded courtyard in Játiva in Valencia, a region whose gardens Rusiñol had first started painting in 1901 and which drew him back again and again. The present work is striking for its graceful informality compared to the more regimented views of the nearby Jardin de Monforte for example.

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 far and wide across the regions of Spain, spending time and 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 shrubberies, orchards, flowerbeds and arboretums that he discovered.