Self-portrait

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Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Ramon Casas
Barcelona, 1866-1932
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An emblematic figure of Catalan Modernisme, Casas, along with other artists, headed the movement for renovation in the Catalan figurative arts at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The artist's outstanding skills show themselves in this Self-portrait, which belongs to his famous gallery of portraits of the leading society and intellectual figures of his time. Executed in charcoal and donated by the artist in 1909, they make up one of the most important collections kept at the MNAC's Department of Drawings and Engravings. Casas' art as a draughtsman became well known through his designs for posters and his magazine illustrations.

This work has been selected for the project 'Partage Plus – Digitising and Enabling Art Nouveau for Europeana'

 

Drawing

1908

62 x 47.2 cm

Given by the artist, 1909

Inventory number: 

027268-D

Charcoal, sepia and white lead, pastel and gouache on paper
Century: 20th
Subject: Portrait
Ramon Casas - Autoretrat - 1908
Autoretrat