C0055

The drunk

Ref Num.: C0055

Date: 1917

Typology: Ceramics

Technique: Painted ceramics

Dimensions: 15 x 15 cm

Signed: “N.” bottom, left

Barcelona, Museu del Disseny – Dhub, MADB 34.820

Square polychrome pottery tile featuring a drunken man propping himself up against a tree after falling over due to the effects of alcohol. Fishing village landscape with a ship with smoke coming out of its funnel in the background. Photograph of a set of tiles that were placed on the left- and right-hand sides of this tile. Image rights: Guillem Fernández-Huerta.

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

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J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil and C. Vidal, Exhibition Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, catalogue , Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Palacio de la Virreina, March-April 1967, no. 1.268, p. 97.

Francesc Quer.