P0025

Hunter and family of hikers

Ref Num.: P0025

Date: 1915-1916

Typology: Painting

Technique: Tempera

Dimensions: 183 x 250 cm

Signed: Unsigned and undated

Barcelona, MNAC, no. 42.408

The Galeries Laietanes had a basement café, El Celler, where members of the noucentista group met. The owner Santiago Segura commissioned Xavier Nogués to paint the murals for the café. They were on a wine-related theme and were later removed by the restorer Ramon Gudiol. The series, which consists of 38 fragments, comprises almost all the murals, except for the large blue panel that was the centrepiece of the main room and some smaller fragments. They are now found in different collections. Three arches with characters, one strangling a cat, a fountain with wine flowing from it, a person walking and the popular saying above the arches which reads La carn fa carn, e lo pa fa pança / mes lo vi mena la dança, the Catalan equivalent of Eat, drink and be merry

Images of works from the museum’s collection, courtesy of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

MNAC acquisition, 1947

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, pàgs. 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, núm. cat. 64, pàg. 22. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 163.