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Santiago Rusiñol
Description
- Santiago Rusiñol
- The Seamstress, Sitges
- signed S. Rusiñol lower right
- oil on canvas
- 96 by 87cm., 37¾ by 34¼in.
Provenance
Sale: Subastas Brok, Barcelona, December 1990, lot 391 (as Interior de Sitges)
Private collection, Barcelona, until 2013
Exhibited
Barcelona, Sala Parés, Pintores de Fama, 1942, no. 12 (as Figura cosiendo)
Literature
Ramon Casellas, 'Exposición Rusiñol', in La Vanguardia, 21 October 1894, p. 5
Ignasi Bo i Singla, in La Voz de Sitges, 21 December 1894, p. 2
Juan Benet, 'Un interior de Rusiñol, subastado por 17 millones', in La Vanguardia, 22 December 1990, p. 44
Isabel Coll Mirabent, Santiago Rusiñol, Sabadell, 1992, p. 260, illustrated (as Mujer cosiendo, dated circa 1892)
Josep de C. Laplana, Santiago Rusiñol. L’obra, l’home, Barcelona, 1995, p. 210, no. 7.16
Josep de C. Laplana & Mercedes Palau-Ribes O'Callaghan, La pintura de Santiago Rusiñol. Obra completa. Vol. III: Catàleg sistemàtic, Barcelona, 2004, p. 71, no. 7.2.5, catalogued & illustrated
Condition
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
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Catalogue Note
Rusiñol studied under Tomás Moragas (1837-1906) and exhibited as early as 1878, when he was still working in a conventional realist style. He went to Paris in 1889 with Miguel Utrillo (1862-1934) and other artists. There he and his close friend Ramón Casas, who lived with him in the Moulin de la Galette, began to paint suburban views of Paris, mainly of Montmartre, and interior scenes with figures. The pictures of Paris they exhibited in Barcelona in 1890 and 1891 opened Catalan art to a new wave of Impressionism influenced by Edgar Degas and James Abbot McNeill Whistler. Their work exhibited a form of modernism that was symptomatic of the cultural renewal in Catalonia, in which Rusiñol, not only as a painter but also as an active intellectual, was an undisputed leader. From 1897 he was associated with the artists and intellectuals centered at the now famous Barcelona café Els Quatre Gats, which also included the young Pablo Picasso.