Portrait of Nubiola
| Portrait of Nubiola |
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| Joan Miró , 1917 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 104 × 113 cm |
| Folkwang Museum, Essen
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The portrait Nubiola (in Catalan Retrat de Vicenç Nubiola ) is an oil painting by the painter and sculptor Joan Miró from 1917 . It is in the permanent collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen .
Story of the picture
Miró painted the portrait of Vicenç Nubiola in April 1917. He had Nubiola, who was a teacher of horticulture at the Escola superior de Bells Oficis ('College of Fine Crafts'), in 1913 in the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc ('St. Luke's Circle') ), where he later came into contact with the patron Joan Prats i Vallès . Soon after its completion, the painting was shown as part of one of Miró's first exhibitions at Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona .
In 1966, the Folkwang Museum acquired the painting from the Wilhelm Großhennig Gallery in Düsseldorf with the support of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and West German Broadcasting . It is recorded in the collection under inventory number G 351. The museum also owns the Miró work Paysage , created between 1924 and 1925. The portrait of Nubiola has been on view twice in Barcelona since then: in 2009 on the occasion of the exhibition Convidats d'Honor ('Guests of Honor'), on the 75th anniversary of the Opening of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and in 2011 in the Joan Miró exhibition . L'escala de l'evasió ('Joan Miró. The Escape Ladder') in the Fundació Joan Miró .
description
The 113 centimeter wide and 104 centimeter high painting is an early work by Miró; it dates from before 1924, before he turned to surrealism . The picture shows elements of Cubism and Fauvism , but there are also stylistic influences of Vincent van Gogh , whose works Miró valued very much. In this early creative period, Miró made several portraits in addition to the portrait of Nubiola, such as the portrait of Enric Cristòfol Ricart , now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , but also a series of landscape paintings with echoes of Spanish folk art .
Miró portrayed Nubiola pipe smoking, with a red shirt dressed sitting on a chair. In a later self-portrait - acquired by Pablo Picasso - Miró depicted himself with an identical shirt. On the table to the right of Nubiola is a still life showing fruits and a flower as well as a porró , a glass container with a drinking tube that is traditionally used in Catalonia to drink wine . Triangular shapes dominate in the background, creating a pattern-like structure. The picture is signed with “Miró” on the lower left edge.
literature
- Jordi J. Clavero: Fundació Joan Miró. Guia de la Fundació . Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-343-1242-5 .
- Convidats d'Honor: exposició commemorativa del 75è aniversari del MNAC . Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona 2009, ISBN 978-84-8043-209-2 (December 2, 2009 to April 11, 2010).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Portrait Nubiola. Museum Folkwang, 2011, accessed on August 20, 2011 .
- ↑ Josep Vicenç Foix: Cent anys de Miró, Mompou i Foix: Doctors Honoris Causa, Universitat de Barcelona . Edicions Universitat Barcelona. 1993, ISBN 978-84-475-0535-7 , pp. 26th f . ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 20, 2011]).
- ^ Entry on Joan Miró. Museum Folkwang, accessed on August 20, 2011 .
- ^ El MNAC celebra sus 75 años con "75 invitados de honor". In: La Vanguardia. December 2, 2009, Retrieved August 20, 2011 (Spanish).
- ^ Exhibition Joan Miró. L'escala de l'evasió. Fundació Joan Miró, accessed October 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Studio international . Studio Trust, 1981 ( Online Google Books [accessed August 20, 2011]).
- ^ Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Georg-Wilhelm Költzsch, Museum Folkwang Essen (ed.): Vincent van Gogh and the modern movement. 1890-1914 . Museum Folkwang Essen, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam. Luca, Freren 1990, DNB 901158429 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 20, 2011]).