C0019

Ceramic panel (Can Culleretes) – 6

Ref Num.:C0019

Details

Date: 1923 –

Typology: Ceramics

Technique: Painted ceramics

Dimensions: 65x91cm & 13x13cm

Signed: “N” bottom right

Location

Museu del Disseny, MCB, 69.804

Description

Panel of 35 ceramic tiles decorated with a landscape and a river fishing scene, inside a Renaissance-style frieze. It was displayed on the ground floor of the former chocolate shop, Can Culleretes (Carrer Quintana, 5) in Barcelona. Made in collaboration with the ceramicist Francesc Quer (1858-1933) at the Pujol i Bausis factory in Esplugues de Llobregat. It was made in 1923 for the restaurant Can Culleretes in Barcelona, which was founded in 1786 as a chocolate shop and converted into a restaurant shortly after being purchased by the renowned restaurateur Miquel Regás (1880-1965). The interior designer Jaume Llongueras (1883-1955) commissioned Nogués to decorate the tiled panels and dados. Some of the panels were kept in Regàs’ collection (Tiana) and others were transferred to the cellar at the Palauet Plandiura (La Garriga) before being donated to the Museu del Disseny in Barcelona. This panel was purchased from Establecimientos Maragall, SA. Image rights: Guillem Fernández

Provenance

MNAC acquisition – 1964

Exhibitions

Palau de la Virreina, March 1967

Bibliography

Vell i Nou, «Notícies», 1923. Joan Teixidor, “Notas para un inventario de la obra de Xavier Nogués”, Anales y Boletín de los Museos de Arte de Barcelona, Arte Moderno, vol. 3, 1945, Cerámica y vidrios, p. 14. Rafael Benet, Xavier Nogués. Caricaturista y pintor, Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1949, “Porcelana, cerámica popular y vidrios”, p. 93, illus. 24 and 25. J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil and C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palau de la Virreina, March-April 1967, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, cat. no. 1228-1246, pp. 94 and 95. A. Catasús and B. Puigdollers, El Noucentisme a Barcelona, Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2016, p. 114. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 201.

Coauthors

Made in collaboration with Francesc Quer (ceramicist) at the Hijo de Jaime Pujol y Bausis factory, Esplugues de Llobregat.