ES0004

Bear

Ref Num.: ES0004

Date: 1933-1935

Typology: Sculpture

Technique: Bronze

Dimensions: 16’5 x 7 x 10’5 cm

Signed: “J. Granyer” on the animal’s foot

Granyer family

Sculpture designed by Xavier Nogués and made in collaboration with his friend, the sculptor Josep Granyer (1899-1983). The Granyer family have a lacquered bronze of the piece and there is another at the MNAC (inventory no. 107.747).

We would like to thank Dr Sofía Isus Ventura for her permission to use a photograph of this piece.

Granyer family

A. del Castillo, Diario de Barcelona, 13th February 1953, Barcelona, p. 6. Cecília Vidal, Exposición: Legado Isabel Escalada Vda. Xavier Nogués, Palacio de la Virreina, Barcelona, 1972, cat. no. 372, p.  60. A. Cirici and R. Manent, Ceràmica catalana, Destino, Barcelona, 1977, p.  434. S. Espriu, Sobre Xavier Nogués i la seva circumstància, Edicions 62, Barcelona, 1982, p.  108. M. A. Casanovas, La ceràmica catalana, La llar del llibre / Els llibres de la Frontera, Barcelona, 1983, p.  74. S. Isus Ventura, L’escultor Josep Granyer i Giralt, online doctoral thesis, Barcelona University, 2011, p.  289, file  33.1.11. R. Benet, Quaderns Rafael Benet, Barcelona, December 1999, no.  3, p.  15. DD.AA., Arts Decoratives, Industrials i Aplicades, L’Isard, Ars Cataloniae, Barcelona, 2000, p.  243.

Josep Granyer.