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CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF WORKS BY XAVIER NOGUÉS
With the support of:
©Dani Rovira, with the approval of the library at the MNAC
L0007
50 ninots
Ref Num.: L0007
Location
Barcelona, MNAC, Library
Description
One of the key works of 20th-century Catalan satirical humour in which Xavier Nogués playfully mocks certain attitudes and behaviours with a gallery of distinctive, often endearing yet slightly pathetic characters. He focuses on the most visible human features –beards, hairstyles, noses– and clothing, exaggerating and distorting them to create vivid caricatures that bring out their flaws and virtues more sharply than a conventional portrait. Marked by wit as well as a refined, cultured tone, his figures seem full of life: they move, glance sideways, stretch and run, inhabiting a space somewhere between realism and expressionism. In the preface, Ramon Reventós offers an acerbic analysis of the themes explored by the artist –such as the seven deadly sins– and the characters he depicts, who are often from the well-to-do classes.
Preface by Ramon Reventós. Illustrations by Xavier Nogués. Salvat-Papasseit Llibreters, Barcelona, 1922, first edition. 5 leaves + 50 illustrations by Nogués.
We would like to thank the Joaquim Folch i Torres library at the MNAC, and especially its head, Yolanda Ruiz Ruiz, for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
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S. Borralleras family acquisition
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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. 1.412, p. 111. Joan M. Minguet Batllori, Alliberar Xavier Nogués, exhibition catalogue , Palau Antiguitats, Barcelona, April-July 2022, no. 63.
Notes
The accompanying images are from a first edition (1922), preserved in the MNAC Library.
