Catalan Universe: Ramon Casas i Carbó

Ramon Casas i Carbó, self-portrait, 1908
drawing - charcoal, sepia and white lead, pastel and gouache on paper
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
(Google Art Project)
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Tackling a bit the Catalan universe, here is about an artist of Barcelona, Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932), known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond; he was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets (wiki).

• Portrait of Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer

(The Moderns)

(Catalan Universe)