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JOAQUIN MIR TRINXET (Barcelona, 1873 - 1940). "Miravet". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. With Barrachina & Ramoneda label on the back. Attached certificate of authenticity issued by Barrachina. Measurements: 54 x 70 cm; 80 x 94 cm (frame). Joaquim Mir dedicated to Miravet, the beautiful village of the Ribera del Ebro, some of his most appreciated paintings. The Templar castle that outlines the hill seems to merge with the rock in this magnificent composition. Also the other houses that adhere like mollusks to the stone seem to mimic it thanks to the use of a synthetic and emphatic brushstroke that scatters its reflections on the river of transparent waters. The impressionist master puts the sky in dialogue with the sea, and the foliage with the dry land. The clouds glide over the reflective surface of the water. Likewise, the emerald green bushes circumvent the preeminence of ochers, siennas and tans that vibrate with their own light. Mir displays his full personality in this landscape. Joaquim Mir studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Jordi in Barcelona and in the workshop of the painter Luis Graner. His style was also influenced by the School of Olot, his father's hometown. He soon felt uncomfortable with the official teaching, anchored in a conception of realist painting, so in 1893 he founded together with other colleagues (Nonell, Canals, Pichot, Vallmitjana and Gual) the "Colla del Safrà", to investigate together in the pictorial initiatives of the end of the century. In 1896 they came to participate as a group in the III Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries, to which Mir presented two works that give us a clear idea of the ideals of the group: "La huerta del rector" and "El vendedor de naranjas". Also, since 1897 he frequented the artistic environment of "Els Quatre Gats", where all the artists who knew the European avant-garde met, which helped him to mature in the compositional study of landscapes with figures in different planes of depth. From this period are "Slopes of Montjuic" (1897) and "The Cathedral of the Poor" (1898), the two masterpieces of his youth. In these years he took part in the Fine Arts Exhibitions of Barcelona, in their editions of 1894, 1896 and 1898. Winner of a second medal at the Madrid Exhibition of 1899, that same year he moved to the capital in order to compete for a scholarship in Rome. When he was unsuccessful, he went with Santiago Rusiñol to Mallorca, on a trip that would be a definitive turning point in his career. Mir was dazzled by the Mallorcan landscape, specifically by Sa Calobra, which was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for him. From then on, the artist deployed a whole combination of impossible colors, the result of his personal interpretation of the majestic nature of the island. The brushstrokes became longer and became stains that almost made objects and spatial references disappear. In 1901 he exhibited the fruit of this first Mallorcan stage individually at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, and again obtained a second medal at the National Exhibition. After a period of illness that forced him to move to Reus, in 1907 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Since then, settled in Camp de Tarragona, he would not move from the landscape genre, but now the surrounding villages would be the protagonists of his painting. Already consolidated as an outstanding figure of the Catalan panorama, he acquired the definitive national recognition in 1917, when he was awarded the National Prize of Fine Arts. Four years later he married and settled permanently in Vilanova i la Geltrú. His successes followed one after the other, and in 1929 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition in Barcelona. The following year he won the medal of honor at the National Exhibition in Madrid, an award he had been pursuing since 1922. Although he was mainly a native painter, he had solo and group exhibitions in Washington, Paris, Pittsburg, New York, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Venice. Mir is today considered the most outstanding representative of Spanish post-impressionist landscape painting. His work is preserved in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among many others.

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JOAQUIN MIR TRINXET (Barcelona, 1873 - 1940). "Miravet". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. With Barrachina & Ramoneda label on the back. Attached certificate of authenticity issued by Barrachina. Measurements: 54 x 70 cm; 80 x 94 cm (frame). Joaquim Mir dedicated to Miravet, the beautiful village of the Ribera del Ebro, some of his most appreciated paintings. The Templar castle that outlines the hill seems to merge with the rock in this magnificent composition. Also the other houses that adhere like mollusks to the stone seem to mimic it thanks to the use of a synthetic and emphatic brushstroke that scatters its reflections on the river of transparent waters. The impressionist master puts the sky in dialogue with the sea, and the foliage with the dry land. The clouds glide over the reflective surface of the water. Likewise, the emerald green bushes circumvent the preeminence of ochers, siennas and tans that vibrate with their own light. Mir displays his full personality in this landscape. Joaquim Mir studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Jordi in Barcelona and in the workshop of the painter Luis Graner. His style was also influenced by the School of Olot, his father's hometown. He soon felt uncomfortable with the official teaching, anchored in a conception of realist painting, so in 1893 he founded together with other colleagues (Nonell, Canals, Pichot, Vallmitjana and Gual) the "Colla del Safrà", to investigate together in the pictorial initiatives of the end of the century. In 1896 they came to participate as a group in the III Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries, to which Mir presented two works that give us a clear idea of the ideals of the group: "La huerta del rector" and "El vendedor de naranjas". Also, since 1897 he frequented the artistic environment of "Els Quatre Gats", where all the artists who knew the European avant-garde met, which helped him to mature in the compositional study of landscapes with figures in different planes of depth. From this period are "Slopes of Montjuic" (1897) and "The Cathedral of the Poor" (1898), the two masterpieces of his youth. In these years he took part in the Fine Arts Exhibitions of Barcelona, in their editions of 1894, 1896 and 1898. Winner of a second medal at the Madrid Exhibition of 1899, that same year he moved to the capital in order to compete for a scholarship in Rome. When he was unsuccessful, he went with Santiago Rusiñol to Mallorca, on a trip that would be a definitive turning point in his career. Mir was dazzled by the Mallorcan landscape, specifically by Sa Calobra, which was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for him. From then on, the artist deployed a whole combination of impossible colors, the result of his personal interpretation of the majestic nature of the island. The brushstrokes became longer and became stains that almost made objects and spatial references disappear. In 1901 he exhibited the fruit of this first Mallorcan stage individually at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, and again obtained a second medal at the National Exhibition. After a period of illness that forced him to move to Reus, in 1907 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Since then, settled in Camp de Tarragona, he would not move from the landscape genre, but now the surrounding villages would be the protagonists of his painting. Already consolidated as an outstanding figure of the Catalan panorama, he acquired the definitive national recognition in 1917, when he was awarded the National Prize of Fine Arts. Four years later he married and settled permanently in Vilanova i la Geltrú. His successes followed one after the other, and in 1929 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition in Barcelona. The following year he won the medal of honor at the National Exhibition in Madrid, an award he had been pursuing since 1922. Although he was mainly a native painter, he had solo and group exhibitions in Washington, Paris, Pittsburg, New York, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Venice. Mir is today considered the most outstanding representative of Spanish post-impressionist landscape painting. His work is preserved in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among many others.

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