MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape at sunset". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Size: 144 x 297 cm; 175,5

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  MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape at sunset". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Size: 144 x 297 cm; 175,5 x 326 cm (frame). As can be appreciated in this canvas, Urgell's landscapes possess an atmosphere, a color and a theme radically opposed to the stereotype of Mediterranean landscape created by the French impressionist painters. His images, lyrical and of great evocative power, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia. In his work there are frequent twilight lights that dissolve, self-absorbed figures, cemeteries, empty beaches, immortalized and retained on the canvas through his subjective vision of the world, fully romantic and, above all, personal and independent. Modest Urgell studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina. Later he spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a member of the realist movement. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as of the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He sent his paintings to numerous exhibitions and contests, to those of Barcelona and to the National Fine Arts of Madrid, as well as to the Universal of Paris and to the International of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are captured in his album "Catalunya" (1905), consisting of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. Modest Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.
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