P0024
Fragment wall decoration for Galeries Laietanes
Ref Num.:P0024
Details
Date: 1915
Typology: Paintings
Technique: Tempera transferred to canvas
Dimensions: 209.5x272cm
Signed: Unsigned and undated
Location
MNAC, Barcelona, no. 42.412
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. Three arches with characters, one strangling a cat, a fountain with wine flowing from it, a person singing and the popular saying La carn fa carn, e lo pa fa pança / mes lo vi mena la dança, the Catalan equivalent of Eat, drink and be merry.
Provenance
MNAC acquisition – 1947
Exhibitions
Sala Parès, October 1947; Museu d’Art Modern, March 1984; MNAC, Obres de la col. d’Art Modern 2014
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, plate 19. 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. J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil and C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palacio de la Virreina, March-April 1967, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, file 68, p. 22. Xavier Nogués. Pintures murals procedents del Celler de les Galeries Laietanes, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, Museu d’Art Modern, 1984, p. 25, cat. no. 9, fig. Catàleg de pintura segles XIX i XX. Fons del Museu d’Art Modern, 2 vol., Barcelona, 1987, II, p. 730, cat. no. 1842-9, fig. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 162.
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