Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
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The portrait Nubiola ( in Catalan Retrat de Vicenç Nubiola ) is a 1917 oil painting arisen the painter and sculptor Joan Miró. It is in the permanent collection of the Museum Folkwang in Essen.
History of the image
Miró painted the portrait of Vicenç Nubiola in April 1917. He had Nubiola, the teacher of Horticulture at the Escola Superior de Bells Oficis (, College of Beautiful crafts ') was, in 1913 at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc (, Artist Circle St. Luke's ) know 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 the first exhibitions of Miró at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona.
1966 acquired the painting from the gallery Wilhelm Großhennig in Dusseldorf with the support of the State of North Rhine - Westphalia and the West German Broadcasting Museum Folkwang. It is listed among the inventory number G 351 in the collection. In the possession of the museum is located beyond the Miró work Paysage, created 1924-1925 In Barcelona the portrait Nubiola has since been seen twice: 2009. Occasion of the exhibition Convidats d' Honor (, guests of honor '), the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and 2011 in the exhibition Joan Miró. L' escala de l' Evasió ( Joan Miró. The escape ladder ' ) in the Fundació Joan Miró.
Description
The 113 centimeters wide and 104 centimeters high painting is an early work by Miró; it dates from the period before 1924, before he turned to surrealism. The image has elements of Cubism and Fauvism, but there are also stylistic influences of Vincent van Gogh, whose works Miró very appreciated. In this early period Miró made next to the image Nubiolas several portraits, such as Portrait of Enric Ricart Cristòfol, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but also a series of landscape paintings with echoes of the Spanish folk art.
Miró portrayed Nubiola smoking a pipe, with a red shirt clothed sitting on a chair. At a later self-portrait - which was acquired by Pablo Picasso - Miró made from an identical shirt. On the table to the right of Nubiola a still life is arranged, the fruit and a flower and a Porro shows a glass container with drinking tube, which is traditionally used in Catalonia to wine drinking. In the background triangular shapes that form a pattern similar structure dominate. The picture is signed " Miro " at the lower left margin.