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CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF WORKS BY XAVIER NOGUÉS
With the support of:
©Dani Rovira
P0137
Sailor
Ref Num.: P0137
Details
Date: 1908
Typology: Painting
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 86 x 70.5 cm
Signed: Dedicated, signed and dated: “Al amich Serra / Francesc Xavier Nogués / 1908” (“To my friend Serra / Francesc Xavier Nogués / 1908”)
Location
Cornellà de Llobregat, Masia Museu Can Serra
Description
The painting depicts a sailor sitting with his head tilted slightly to one side. He is wearing a blue top and a white shirt. In the background there is a maritime landscape with figures mending nets and buildings. It is one of the few portraits Nogués painted at an easel. In the lower left-hand corner, we can read: “Al amich Serra / Francesc Xavier Nogués” and, in another colour, maybe added later, the date: “1908”. The work was dedicated to the modernista ceramicist and Nogués’ good friend, Antoni Serra i Fiter.
We would like to thank Antoni Serra’s grandson, the artist Jordi Serra i Moragas, who is the owner of the work, for his assistance in enabling us to include this painting in our catalogue.
Provenance
Antoni Serra Fiter collection
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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, olis, no. 8 p. 11.
Rafael Benet, Xavier Nogués, caricaturista y pintor, Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1949, fig. 1, p. 91, plate 51.
Francesc Pujols, Xavier Nogués, pintor del vino, Col·lecció Ediciones de la revista Dionisos 2, Vilafranca, 1954, fig. on plate 25.
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, p. 16, file 9.
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The painting featured on the cover of issue 142 of the magazine D’ací i d’allà, October 1929.
It is in an acceptable/good state of conservation, but some later overpainting, paint blisters and craquelures can be seen. On the reverse, at the top left, in ink: “28”, probably from the inventory of Antoni Serra’s estate, as his grandson Jordi Serra tells us. Remnants of an old torn and illegible paper label on the reverse side of the frame.”