Santiago RUSIÑOL (Barcelone 1861-Aranjuez 1931) The... Lot 34

Santiago RUSIÑOL (Barcelone 1861-Aranjuez 1931) The Ford (El gual) Oil on original canvas 75 x 114,5 cm Signed lower right S.Rusinol On the back of the stretcher are the old provenance and exhibition labels: Sr. José Luis Cueto; Sala Pares Barcelona Petritxol, 5; Santiago Rusinol Paisaje, 75 x 114 V 1973. and in red 21892. Sala Parés Exposicio; Homenatge a Sanatigo Rusinol; Paisatge . Register:21892 N° Ctaleg: 1. Juny - Juliol 1981 H: 74 x W: 114 cm Provenance : Private collection Exhibitions: Site cuadros y su historia, 1973, Sala Parés, Barcelona, without number Paisaje Homenatge, Sala Parés, Barcelona, June-July, 1981, paisatge (Epoca d'Olot) Risinol-Casas-Claraso, Sala Parés, Barcelona 1983, fig 6. Bibliography: Solidaridad Nacional, 21-VI-1973, fig Jde C Laplana ( 1995 ) cat 1.9 Josep de C Laplana, Mercedes Palau-Ribes O'Callaghan, La pintura de Santiago Rusinol, obra completa, cataleo sistemàtic, n° 1.9 reproduced on page 12 Born into a family of textile industrialists from Manlleu and Barcelona, Santiago Rusinol showed early on both a lack of interest in the family business, which he left to his brother, and a dual passion for painting and writing. Starting his apprenticeship in the studio of the painter Tomas Moragas, he participated for the first time in a group exhibition at the Sala Parès in 1879, where he met the renowned landscape painter Joaquim Vayreda, who taught him the art of representing nature by adding a soul, without including characters, leaving the viewer's gaze to wander along the water and the tree lanes. Travelling in Catalonia, then in all Spain, Italy and France, he forged his vocation as a naturalist landscape painter and befriended Ramon Casas, Miguel Utrillo (Maurice Utrillo's future father) and all this society of Spanish and Catalan artists who came to Paris to learn modern painting and to exhibit at the two greatest salons of the time : the Salon des Champs-Elysées and the new Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts . Our painting, dating from the early years of Santiago Rusinol's work, already shows the extreme technical mastery of landscape painting, allowing the nostalgia of a late day light to shine through.