P0096

Piglets or the fair

Ref Num.: P0096

Date: 1933

Typology: Painting

Technique: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 31.5 x 39.5 cm

Signed: “Nogués / 1933” bottom, right

Private collection

Numbered “42.094” in red pigment, on the lower, right-hand corner in the Catalan government’s register of confiscated artefacts 1936-1937. The photograph of the work (with the stamp of the Barcelona-based photographer Francesc Serra de Barcelona) is included in volume II of the photograph albums of Xavier Nogués’ works, donated by his widow Isabel Escalada to the Museus d’Art de Barcelona (Biblioteca Josep Folch i Torres, inventory ref. no. 4 – 767, R. 43921). Image rights: Joan Francesc Ainaud.

Lluís Plandiura collection

Anonymous, 7 pintures de Xavier Nogués. Mostra del 6 al 19 d’April de 1935, La Pinacoteca, Barcelona, 1935, cat. no. 5 (“Porquets” in “col·leccions particulars”). Joan Teixidor, Notas para un inventario de la obra de Xavier Nogués, Anales y Boletín de los Museos de Arte de Barcelona, Arte Moderno, vol. 3, 1945, p. 12 (“Porquets”, Plandiura Collection, 1933). Rafael Benet, Xavier Nogués, caricaturista y pintor, Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1949, pp. 90-91. “Pinturas de Caballete (al óleo) – Composiciones con figures y paisaje”, no. 10: “Cerditos, Ganaderos observando unos cerditos. 1933. Col. Plandiura. La Garriga”. Francesc Fontbona, Luis Racionero, Centenari Francesc Pujols. Homenatge Dau al Set, Galeria d’Art, exhibition cat. Barcelona, 1982, cat. no. 52, “La Fira”. AA. VV., Col·leccionistes d’art a Catalunya, Barcelona, 1986, cat. no. 125, p. 143 and p. 251.