P0003

Female figure (Woman’s Head)

Ref Num.:P0003

Details

Date: 1940

Typology: Paintings

Technique: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 33x41cm

Signed: Unsigned and undated

Location

MNAC, Barcelona, no. 107.539

Description

Also mentioned with the title: Obra inacabada (unfinished work). The former collection of Nogues’ widow, it is a preparatory study for the work “The Fish Market”, which he never painted.

Provenance

Isabel Escalada’s bequest – 1969

Exhibitions

Isabel Escalada’s bequest, Palau de la Virreina, March 1972

Bibliography

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, p. 13. Rafael Benet, Xavier Nogués. Caricaturista y pintor, Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1949, cat. no. 5, p. 91. Cecília Vidal,Exposición Legado Isabel Escalada Vda. Xavier Nogués, Palacio de la Virreina, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Palau de la Virreina, 1972, cat. no. 10, p. 14. Catàleg de pintura segles XIX i XX. Fons del Museu d’Art Modern, 2 vol., Barcelona, 1987, II, p. 739, cat. no. 1864, fig. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 139.

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