P0023
Fragment wall decoration for Galeries Laietanes
Ref Num.:P0023
Details
Date: 1915
Typology: Paintings
Technique: Tempera transferred to canvas
Dimensions: 105x70cm
Signed: Unsigned and undated
Location
MNAC, Barcelona, no. 42.433
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. Figure with a glass of wine under an arch.
Provenance
MNAC acquisition – 1947
Exhibitions
Sala Parès, October 1947; Museu d’Art Modern, March 1984
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. 164-165. J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil y C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palacio de la Virreina, marzo-abril 1967, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, filea 89, p. 24. Xavier Nogués. Pintures murals procedents del Celler de les Galeries Laietanes, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, Museu d’Art Modern, 1984, p. 36 and 42, cat. no. 30, fig. Catàleg de pintura segles XIX i XX. Fons del Museu d’Art Modern, 2 vol., Barcelona, 1987, II, p. 730, cat. no. 1842-30, fig. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 159.
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