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C0101
Ceramic frieze at the Celler Cooperatiu del Pinell de Brai. Section on a wine-related theme – 1
Ref Num.: C0101
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Date: 1920-1921
Typology: Ceramics
Technique: Painted ceramics
Dimensions: –
Signed: No signed and dated
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Terra Alta, Pinell de Brai
Description
From 1920 to 1921 Xavier Nogués worked on the decorations for the façade of the cooperative winery and olive press, the Celler i Cooperativa Agrícola de Pinell de Brai (Terra Alta, Tarragona), consisting of different ceramic panels and friezes on wine-related themes and about olive oil production. The building had been planned and designed by the architect Cèsar Martinell and became known as the “cathedral of wine”. The frieze on the winery façade is the longest and features scenes about the wine-making process, a theme Nogués was particularly fond of and revisited throughout his life.
This is a long narrative frieze where we can see the following scenes or passages: a couple relaxing in the open air with the man drinking from a wineskin; a hunter walking, surrounded by birds, looking at six of his friends who have stopped to take a break under an awning and are drinking around a table, with the customary glasses and wine-drinking vessel. A drunken man, hugging a tree, concludes the scene on the right. Nogués gave a similar version of this scene to his friend, the architect Cèsar Martinell and in 2015, it became part of the collections of the Museu de Valls.
Image rights: Dani Rovira. With kind permission of the Cooperativa del Celler Pinell de Brai.
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Bibliography
Rafael Benet, Xavier Nogués. Caricaturista y pintor, Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1949, cat. Porcelana, ceràmica, p. 93 and p. 14. J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil and C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palacio de la Virreina, March-April 1967, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, cat. no. 548, p. 59 and cat. no. 1269, p. 97. Cèsar Martinell, Destino, no. 1272, 23rd December 1961. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, pp. 193-197.
