C0022

Alfresco family gathering (Panel from Can Culleretes )

Ref Num.: C0022

Date: 1923

Typology: Ceramics

Technique: Painted ceramics

Dimensions: 65 x 91cm i 13 x 13 cm

Signed: “N.” bottom, right

Barcelona, Museu del Disseny – Dhub, MADB 71.609

Panel of 35 polychrome pottery tiles featuring a landscape with four figures: two women, a child and a man dining in a Mediterranean landscape. It is set inside a frieze with Renaissance-style motifs. It was displayed on the ground floor of the former chocolate shop, Can Culleretes (Carrer Quintana, 5) in Barcelona. Produced in collaboration with the ceramicist Francesc Quer (1858-1933) at the Fills de Jaume Pujol i Bausis factory in Esplugues de Llobregat. It was made in 1923 for the restaurant Can Culleretes in Barcelona, which opened as a chocolatiers in 1786 and was converted into a restaurant shortly after being purchased by the renowned restaurateur Miquel Regàs (1880-1965). The interior designer Jaume Llongueras (1883-1955) commissioned Nogués to decorate the tiled panels and dados. Some of the panels were kept in Regàs’ collection (Tiana) and others were transferred to the cellar at the Palauet Plandiura (La Garriga) before being donated to the Museu del Disseny in Barcelona. Image rights: Guillem Fernández-Huerta.

Miquel Regàs’ bequest, 1966

Vell i Nou, “Notícies”, 1923. 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, Cerámica y vidrios, p. 14. Rafael Benet, Xavier Nogués. Caricaturista y pintor, Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1949, Porcelana, cerámica popular y vidrios, p. 93, illustrations 24 and 25. J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil and C. Vidal, Exhibition Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palacio de la Virreina, March-April 1967, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, cat. no. 1228-1246, pp. 94 and 95. Modernisme, cap a la cultura del disseny. Ajuntament de Barcelona, Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2020. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 202.

Francesc Quer.