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CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF WORKS BY XAVIER NOGUÉS
With the support of:
©Reventós family
D0001
Book with notes and sketches for the Poble Espanyol – 1
Ref Num.: D0001
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Date: 1927
Typology: Drawing
Technique: Graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions: 26 x 21 cm
Signed: Unsigned and undated
Location
Barcelona – Ramon Reventós collection
Description
Drawing, probably by Xavier Nogués, in the sketchbooks he used on the road trip organised by the board of the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition for the building of the visitor attraction, the Poble Espanyol, on Montjuïc. The head curator of the exhibition, Lluís Plandiura, appointed four cultural figures to study examples of iconic Spanish architectural landmarks: the artist Xavier Nogués, the architect Ramon Reventós, the multifaceted Miquel Utrillo (engineer, patron of the arts, painter and art critic) and the architect Francesc Falguera, who made sketches and notes about the buildings that would make up the Poble Espanyol, and took photographs of them. The first road trip took place between 2nd September and 2nd October 1927 and visited different towns and villages in Aragon.
This drawing (notebook 3, p. 4) shows a general view of the village of Pueyo de Marguillén with notes reading “identificado” (identified) and “este no” (not this one).
The group of four worked together on the notebooks and by the end of the road trip they had completed five of them. Most of the artistic drawings are by Nogués, whereas the sketches, elevations and plans were by Reventós. This and the other drawings are now in the collection of Ramon Reventós’ family.
We would like to thank Sandra Moliner for helping us catalogue these works.
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Bibliography
S. Moliner Nuño, Un viaje en el tiempo: El Poble Espanyol de Montjuïc, online doctoral thesis, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 2018, 685 pp. S. Moliner Nuño, I. Santacreu Tudó, E. Redondo Domínguez, El Poble Espanyol de Montjuïc. Su génesis tras un viaje por España [online], 07-02-25, in: ACE: Architecture, City and Environment = Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno, 13 (39): 233-252, 2019. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 259.