Miquel Villà Bassols (Barcelona, 1901-1988)
Rural view with farmhouse.
Oil on c…

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Miquel Villà Bassols (Barcelona, 1901-1988) Rural view with farmhouse. Oil on canvas. Signed on the back. 20 x 27 cm.

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Miquel Villà Bassols (Barcelona, 1901-1988) Rural view with farmhouse. Oil on canvas. Signed on the back. 20 x 27 cm.

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MIQUEL VILLÀ I BASSOLS (Barcelona 1901-1988). "Landscape of Masnou". Oil on board. Signed and located on the back. Measurements: 28 x 38 cm; 40 x 50 cm (frame). The work presented here is a clear example of the particular and characteristic style of Miquel Villá. In it, the painter rigorously organizes the composition, clearly separating the foreground from the background. Thus, we find in the foreground the road, which emerges from the very edge of the painting, guiding our gaze towards the houses that occupy the background. However, despite this compositional exercise of classical character, the artist treats the work from a new plastic language. For this he uses a blurred brushstroke that provides a volumetric sensation and also does not delimit the spaces, but combines them with each other. Miquel Villà i Bassols was a Spanish painter, and one of the main representatives of Fauvism in Spain. At the age of 13 his father, a wine merchant, took him with him to Colombia (Bogota). There he attended the school of fine arts until 1918. In 1920 he discovers Paris, which will be his habitual residence until 1930. In Paris he attends the Colarossi Academy. He befriends Jean Fautrier, Marcel Duchamp, Togores, Pancho Cossío and the sculptor Pablo Gargallo, who will greatly influence his artistic career. His main influences were Cezanne and, at the beginning of his artistic career, Maurice de Vlaminck. He receives notorious influences from the last period of Rembrandt. From 1930 he resides mainly in Catalonia: Barcelona, Masnou, Puebla de Segur, and spends some time in Ibiza. In 1985 he was distinguished by the Generalitat de Catalunya with the Cross of Sant Jordi.

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ACHILLE BATTISTUZZI (Trieste - Barcelona, 1891). "View of Barcelona".1878. Oil on canvas. Signed, dated and located in the lower right corner. Attached to the back a label of Ramoneda & Barrachina. Measurements: 90 x 131 cm; 110 x 151 cm (frame). Achile Battistuzzi was an Italian painter who lived in Barcelona for most of his life, giving the Catalan capital magnificent port and urban views. In the painting shown here, Battistuzzi's mastery of working the space in a scenographic manner is evident, naturally superimposing the mountainous landscape (the Montjuïc area) and the port of Barcelona, which can be glimpsed in the background, criss-crossed with boats. The Reales Atarazanas (Royal Shipyards) divide the seafront and the margins of the city. In this panoramic view, the artist displays his skills as a veduttist and his bold use of light. The rural area with its peasants and the port area with its fishing boats form two parallel realities. Achille Battistuzzi settled in Barcelona around 1866. He specialised in landscape paintings with urban scenes. He was one of those who introduced Venetian Vedutism to Catalonia, following the influences of Canaletto and Guardi. His work "El pla de la Boqueria" is in the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Painted around 1873, the work was exhibited at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona in 1888. The Barcelona History Museum has nine works by the artist, and the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona holds two oil paintings, two watercolours, two drawings and two engravings. The Maritime Museum of Barcelona holds the canvas entitled "Vista de las Reales Atarazanas de Barcelona y de la Montaña de Montjuïc" (View of the Royal Shipyards of Barcelona and Montjuïc Mountain).

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