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CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF WORKS BY XAVIER NOGUÉS
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©Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona. Photographer: Francesc Serra
P0136
Olot Market
Ref Num.: P0136
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Date: 1937
Typology: Painting
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: –
Signed: Signed and dated, bottom, right “Nogués / 1937”
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Description
This painting of life in and around the market in the town of Olot, where the artist lived, reveals the influences of the Catalan noucentista movement. It was shown at the spring exhibition, the Exposició de Primavera de Barcelona, in 1937, held in the lobby of Sarrià railways in Plaça Catalunya, and featuring 333 works. The painting was purchased by the General Commission for Museums for 2,000 pesetas and put on display at the Museu d’Art de Catalunya. It also won the Isidre Nonell painting prize awarded by the Catalan government. Nogués received 5,000 pesetas in prize money. It was included in the inventory of the museum’s collection with register number: MAC 61.622.
We would like to thank the Arxiu Fotogràfic for allowing us to reproduce the photograph of the painting.
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Museu d’Art de Catalunya acquisition
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Bibliography
Mireia Berenguer Amat and Alícia Cornet Arilla, “Les obres del Museu d’Art de Catalunya desaparegudes a Darnius durant la Guerra Civil”, in Butlletí de la Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, no. XXXVII, 2023, pp. 159-160, fig. 12 (reproduced).
Montse Carreño, “F[r]icciones con lo real: Las cajas chinas”, in Tesis doctorals en xarxa [online]. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2016, pp. 250-254. <http://hdl.handle.net/10803/381241> [Viewed: 29th November 2023].
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This was one of the many paintings removed from the Palau Nacional on 9th May and taken to Olot for safekeeping during the Spanish Civil War. It is included in the inventory of works that were moved from the church of Sant Esteve to the farmhouse Can Descals. It never came into the possession of the Service for the Protection of National Artistic Heritage in 1941 because one of the technicians made an error when copying the name and number of the painting on the inventory sheet. The correct identification number for the painting was lost as a result. The Museum Board’s attempt to retrieve the painting in 1945 was unsuccessful and its whereabouts remain unknown.
The original photograph is held at the Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona (AFB 3-120).