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CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF WORKS BY XAVIER NOGUÉS
Scientific director: Francesc Fontbona; with the cooperation of Cecília Vidal
Technical director: Joan-Francesc Ainaud
Documentation: Santiago Mercader; with the cooperation of Cristina Bartrès
Photographs: Dani Rovira
English translations: Tallers Gràfics Alfa
With the support of:

©Dani Rovira, with the approval of the library at the MNAC

L0010

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Ref Num.: L0010

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Date: 1927

Typology: Book

Technique: Photoengraving

Dimensions: 17 cm

Signed: –

Location

Barcelona, MNAC, Library

Description

A critical look at Catalan society, through a moralistic lens. Critics have described this book as “Noucentisme in its purest form.” Guerau de Liost (text); Xavier Nogués (illustrations). Barcelona, Edicions de la Revista de Poesia, 1927, 239 pages. This volume features more than 60 illustrations by Nogués. It was reissued by Selecta in 1966 and Quaderns Crema in 1999.

We would like to thank the Joaquim Folch i Torres library at the MNAC, and especially its head, Yolanda Ruiz Ruiz, for their assistance in cataloguing this work.

Provenance

Jordi Verrié

Exhibitions

Palau Antiguitats, April 2022/ Palau de la Virreina, March 1967

Bibliography

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. 1.413, p. 111. Joan M. Minguet Batllori, Alliberar Xavier Nogués, exhibition catalogue, Palau Antiguitats, Barcelona, April-July 2022, no. 64.

Notes

The accompanying photographs are from a first edition (1927) preserved in the library at the MNAC. Another copy has been identified at the Palau Antiguitats gallery.

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