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CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF WORKS BY XAVIER NOGUÉS
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D0042
Setze jutges mengen fetge d’un Penjat (Sixteen judges eating a hanged man’s liver – title taken from a Catalan tongue-twister)
Ref Num.: D0042
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Date: 1912
Typology: Drawing
Technique: Ink and gouache on paper
Dimensions: 28.2 x 33 cm
Signed: “Babel” a la part superior esquerra
Location
Barcelona, MNAC, GDG inventory no. 5.011-D
Description
A satirical drawing in which Nogués offers a grotesque interpretation of the famous popular saying. First published in Picarol 24/2/12, no. 3, n.d. and afterwards in La Catalunya pintoresca (text by Francesc Pujols and preface by Joan Sacs), Barcelona, Salvat Papasseït llibreters, 1919, p. 1. Image rights: MNAC.
Images of works from the museum’s collection, courtesy of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
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Plandiura collection, 1903 / MNAC acquisition, 1932
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Bibliography
Picarol, 1912, no. 3, p. 10. La Catalunya pintoresca, 1st edition, p. 1; 3rd edition, p. 5. Rafael Benet, Xavier Nogués, caricaturista y pintor, Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1949, “Caricaturas”, no. 1, p. 84. J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil y C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palacio de la Virreina, marzo-abril 1967, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, no. cat. 152, p. 31.
