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L0005

La Catalunya Pintoresca

Ref Num.: L0005

Details

Date: 1919

Typology: Book

Technique: Photoengraving

Dimensions: 31,5 cm

Signed: “Babel” a les illustrations

Location

Barcelona, MNAC, Biblioteca

Description

Five sections consisting of ten engravings each with a text by Francesc Pujols. Barcelona, Libreria Catalonia, 1933. 54 sheets. With a text and fifty illustrations by Nogués, signed as “Babel”. Image rights: Palau Antiguitats. (Second edition).

Provenance

Isabel Escalada’s bequest, 1969

Exhibitions

March 1967; Palau Antiguitats/ April 2022

Bibliography

J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil and C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palacio de la Virreina, March -April 1967, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, cat. no. 1.409, 1.417, 1.424, pp. 110-112. Joan M. Minguet Batllori, Alliberar Xavier Nogués, exhibition catalogue , Palau Antiguitats, Barcelona, April-July 2022, no. 76.

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