C0086

Standing man with his hand on his chest and raising a glass

Ref Num.: C0086

Date: ca. 1915-1917

Typology: Ceramics

Technique: Painted ceramics

Dimensions: 13 x 13 cm

Signed: “N.” bottom, right

Sant Just Desvern, Masia Can Cardona

The old farmhouse of Can Cardona in Sant Just Desvern has a series of tiles designed by Xavier Nogués (pre-1920). Its current owner, Daniel Cardona Pera, is the grandson of the former mayor of Sant Just, Daniel Cardona i Civit. We know through oral testimony that Civit was a friend of Joan Salvat Papasseit (writer, publisher and a friend of Nogués who wrote a number of the publications the artist worked on) and these tiles ended up at the farmhouse as a result of this friendship. They are currently in two areas. Four of them are inside the farmhouse and the rest are outside, on the wall of an old well. This tile used to be on a wall in the kitchen but it is now in the entrance hall, following the refurbishment of the house between 2020 and 2022. It is not inset into the wall. We would like to thank the Centre d’Estudis Santjustencs and the owner of Can Cardona for their generous contributions. Image rights: Daniel Cardona.

Images of works from the museum’s collection, courtesy of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

Daniel Cardona collection

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