D0002

Book with notes and sketches for the Poble Espanyol – 2

Ref Num.: D0002

Date: 1927

Typology: Drawing

Technique: Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions: 26 x 21 cm

Signed: Unsigned and undated

Barcelona – Ramon Reventós collection

Drawing, probably by Xavier Nogués, in the sketchbooks he used on the road trip organised by the board of the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition for the building of the visitor attraction, the Poble Espanyol, on Montjuïc. The head curator of the exhibition, Lluís Plandiura, appointed four cultural figures to study examples of iconic Spanish architectural landmarks: the artist Xavier Nogués, the architect Ramon Reventós, the multifaceted Miquel Utrillo (engineer, patron of the arts, painter and art critic) and the architect Francesc Falguera, who made sketches and notes about the buildings that would make up the Poble Espanyol, and took photographs of them.The first road trip took place between 2nd September and 2nd October 1927 and visited different towns and villages in Aragon.

This drawing (notebook 3, p. 5) shows different architectural details from the house in the village of Graus that would be replicated in the Poble Espanyol. Details of the capitals, corbels, columns, etc.

The group of four worked together on the notebooks and by the end of the road trip they had completed five of them. Most of the artistic drawings are by Nogués, whereas the sketches, elevations and plans were by Reventós. This and the other drawings are now in the collection of Ramon Reventós’ family.

We would like to thank Sandra Moliner for helping us catalogue these works.

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S. Moliner Nuño, Un viaje en el tiempo: El Poble Espanyol de Montjuïc, online doctoral thesis, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 2018, 685 pp. S. Moliner Nuño, I. Santacreu Tudó, E. Redondo Domínguez, El Poble Espanyol de Montjuïc. Su génesis tras un viaje por España[online], 07-02-25, in: ACE: Architecture, City and Environment = Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno, 13 (39): 233-252, 2019. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 259.