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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
L0011
L’oci d’un filòsof
Ref Num.: L0011
Location
Barcelona, MNAC, Biblioteca
Description
With his trademark mordant wit and irreverent humour, Cristòfor de Domènech wrote this book, which was seized by the police shortly after publication. Cristòfor de Domènech (text); Xavier Nogués (illustrations). Barcelona, J. Horta, Llibreria Catalonia, 1928. 236 pages. Includes seven illustrations by Nogués, in addition to the cover and title page. A copy is held by the Xavier Nogués Foundation. Other copies have been identified at the library at the MNAC and the Palau Antiguitats gallery
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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Isabel Escalada’s bequest, 1969
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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, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, cat. no. 1.415, p. 111. Joan M. Minguet Batllori, Alliberar Xavier Nogués, exhibition catalogue, Palau Antiguitats, Barcelona, April-July 2022, no. 65.
Notes
The accompanying photographs are from the first edition (1928) preserved in the library at the MNAC.
