C0020
Ceramic panel (Can Culleretes) – 7
Ref Num.:C0020
Details
Date: 1923 –
Typology: Ceramics
Technique: Painted ceramics
Dimensions: 65x91cm & 13x13cm
Signed: “N” bottom right
Location
Museu del Disseny, MCB, 69.803
Description
Panel of 35 polychrome ceramic tiles depicting a landscape with an alfresco dining room with five seated men, a waiter and a waitress. The composition is framed by 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-Huerta.
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.
Coauthors
Made in collaboration with Francesc Quer (ceramicist) at the Hijo de Jaime Pujol y Bausis factory, Esplugues de Llobregat.