P0056
Fragment wall decoration for Galeries Laietanes
Ref Num.:P0056
Details
Date: 1915
Typology: Paintings
Technique: Tempera transferred to canvas
Dimensions: 87.7×115.4x4cm
Signed: Unsigned and undated
Location
MNAC, Barcelona, no. 42.429
Description
Santiago Segura, the owner of the Galeries Laietanes, which had a basement café, El Celler, where many members of the noucentista group met, commissioned Xavier Nogués to paint the murals. They were on a theme related to wine and were removed by the restorer Ramon Gudiol. The series consists of 38 fragments, almost all the murals, except for the big blue panel that formed the centrepiece of the main room and some smaller fragments. They are now part of different collections. Two figures with a horn of plenty and a drinking vessel and central text with the inscription: Vivite Bebite Col-legiales Post Multa Soecula Pecul-la Nul-la.
Provenance
MNAC acquisition – 1947
Exhibitions
Sala Parès, October 1947; Museu d’Art Modern, March 1984; Barcelona, the city of artistic miracles, Sapporo Art Park, Sapporo 2019; idem Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki 2019; idem Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji 2019; idem Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka 2019-2020; idem Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo 2020
Bibliography
Francesc Pujols, “Xavier Nogués”, La Revista, Barcelona, 1917, vol. III. Romà Jori, “La Cava de les Galeries d’Art Modern i Antiguitats”, Vell i Nou, Barcelona, 15/9/1915, 9; 15/12/1915, 39. Romà Jori, “Les caves: decoracions d’en Nogués”, Vell i Nou, Barcelona, 15/12/1916, 39, pp. 312-314. Joan Sacs, Xavier Nogués, Col·lecció Quaderns Blaus, Llibreria Catalònia, La nostra gent, Barcelona, 1928. 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, III. 1, p. 12. Pinturas para El Celler por Xavier Nogués, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, 1947. Rafael Benet, Xavier Nogués, caricaturista y pintor, Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1949, p. 92, J. Cortés. El “Celler de les Galeries Layetanes” en el Museo de Arte Moderno, Anales y Boletín de los Museos de Arte de Barcelona, Vol. IX, 1951, pp. 159-169. Xavier Nogués. Pintures murals procedents del Celler de les Galeries Laietanes, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, Museu d’Art Modern, 1984, p. 32, cat. no. 26, fig. Catàleg de pintura segles XIX i XX. Fons del Museu d’Art Modern, 2 vol., Barcelona, 1987, II, p. 730, cat. no. 1842-26, fig..
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