DARIO DE REGOYOS Y VALDÉS (Ribadesella, Asturias, 1857 - Barcelona, 1913) - "La baie de Pasajès (Basque Country)", 1885. Oil on canvas. This work i

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  DARIO DE REGOYOS Y VALDÉS (Ribadesella, Asturias, 1857 - Barcelona, 1913) - "La baie de Pasajès (Basque Country)", 1885. Oil on canvas. This work is registered in the Reasoned Catalog of the Artist, page 113. Cat nº 101. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 76 x 110 cm; 106 x 142 cm (frame). Provenance: this work was acquired during the artist's lifetime by a Belgian collector, years later it was auctioned at the Georges Giroux Gallery, Brussels, lot no. 31 of auction no. 351 of 1957. Its buyer sold it to the painter's daughters, who in turn sold it to a private individual. In 2005 it was auctioned for 160.000€. This work was carried out on the basis of the painting "Pasajes", which belongs to the same period and was made when Regoyos lived in Irun. However, in this painting, unlike the aforementioned, the author focuses the theme on the representation of the bay, without abandoning the presence of the railroad tracks and the wagon that is arranged in the left area, with which he reinforces the idea that they are train tracks, which are present. It is important to note that this is the first time that his signature adopts the form Darío de R, which shows us that in those years Regoyos was known in Belgium as Don Darío, and that his surname was not very significant. The son of a prominent architect then active in Asturias, Darío de Regoyos was trained in Madrid, at the San Fernando Academy (1878). Soon, induced by his teacher Carlos de Haes and his musician friends, Enrique F. Arbós and Isaac Albéniz, he settled in Brussels (1879), where he would be a disciple of Josep Quinaux. In the Belgian capital he came into contact with E. Verhaeren, G. Rodenbach and M. Maeterlinck, a group of young creators who were forging the main Belgian cultural movement of the end of the century, an interest in which he himself would play an eminent role. Thus, he was part of the groups L'Essor (1881-83) and Les XX (1883-93). However, he never took root anywhere; even during his Belgian period he frequently returned to Spain, and during the eighties he lived in the Basque Country, where he revitalized the already important local modern art school. In 1888 he accompanied the writer Verhaeren on a trip through Spain (he had already done it before with other Belgian companions), which would be the germ of his famous series "España negra" (Black Spain), published in Barcelona in 1899. With this work, Regoyos was a pioneer in Spain of the so-called neoxylography or creative xylography. If during the 1880's he only participated in exhibitions in Belgium and Holland, in the 1890's he would also participate in Paris, taking part regularly in the Salon des Indépendants. From these years he would also show his work in Madrid, Munich and Barcelona, the latter city where his painting was honored in 1894 by the most important figures of modernism. In Belgium, Regoyos was also linked to the society La Libre Esthétique from its origin (1894), an association that gathered in this country the inheritance of the artistic modernity. In 1897 he held his first solo exhibition at the prominent Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris. The second, the following year, would take place at Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona, where he was the artistic director of the magazine "Luz", and from 1900 the range of his exhibitions expanded, his work being shown in Bilbao, Frankfurt, Berlin, The Hague, Venice, Bayonne, San Sebastian, London, Mexico City, Bordeaux and Buenos Aires, among other cities. At the beginning of the 20th century Regoyos intensified his travels, living between Granada and Bilbao. In 1911 he settled in Barcelona, where he died two years later. He is represented in the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña in Barcelona, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao and the Gerstenmaier Collection, among many other museums and institutions.
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