JOSÉ MARTÍ GARCÉS DE MARCILLA (Lérida, 1880-Barcelona,... Lot 20

JOSÉ MARTÍ GARCÉS DE MARCILLA (Lérida, 1880-Barcelona, 1932). "Palatial Scene", 1930. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right-hand corner. Size: 76 x 90 cm; 100 x 115 cm (frame). In this painting Martí Garcés shows us a palatial scene which serves him as a pretext to display his mastery in capturing the aristocratic sumptuousness of the nineteenth-century clothes, the headdresses and the noble furniture. He began his training with the Valencian painter Vicente Borrás y Abellá. In 1907 he travelled to Paris and Venice to further his artistic studies; in the French capital he entered the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He took part in numerous exhibitions and competitions, winning a silver medal at the 1911 Barcelona International Exhibition, a third medal at the 1920 National Exhibition of Fine Arts and a second medal at the 1922 edition for his canvases La novia de Espronceda and El balcón, respectively. He also took part in the International Exhibitions of Amsterdam, Basel, Brighton and San Francisco. He practised mural painting, most notably the ornamentation of the panel dedicated to the monastery of Poblet in the Saint George Hall of the Diputació de Barcelona.