P0025

Hunter and Family of Hikers

Ref Num.:P0025

Details

Date: 1915-1916

Typology: Paintings

Technique: Tempera

Dimensions: 183x250cm

Signed: Unsigned and undated

Location

MNAC, Barcelona, no. 42.408

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

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 and C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palau de la Virreina, March-April 1967, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, file 64, p. 22. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 163.

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