El Jardin del Principe de Aranjuez

Details

Santiago Rusiñol y Prats (Spanish, 1861-1931)
El Jardin del Principe de Aranjuez
signed 'S. Rusiñol' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 ½ x 30 ½ in. (80 x 80 cm.)
Painted in 1913.

Provenance

Giusepe De Luca, Buenos Aires (acquired in Europe),
Thence by descent to Marta Ballester Molina, Buenos Aires.
Thence by descent to María Isabel Ballester Molina, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, in 2009.

Literature

J. C. Laplana & M. Palau-Ribes O'Callaghan, La Pintura de Santiago Rusiñol: Obra Completa, Barcelona, volume III, p. 177, no. 17.5.1 (illustrated), as 'Roses i eucaliptus'.

Exhibited

Barcelona, Exposició Rusiñol, Sala Parés, January 1914, no. 13, as: 'Roses i eucaliptus'.

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Lot Essay

Born in Barcelona in 1861, Santiago Rusiñol’s family were wealthy industrialists with successful interests in textiles. Rejecting the opportunity to work within the family firm, Rusiñol developed his early talent as a painter and studied to be an artist.
Rusiñol’s poetic artistic language has its roots in the time he spent in Paris in the early 1890’s. Living in Montmartre alongside fellow Spanish artists Ramon Casas and Ignacio Zuloaga, he developed a love of modernism. At this time he also started his association with the Brussels-based avant-garde group of artists known at Les XX, whose founder members included Fernand Khnopff and James Ensor. The group became influential for modernist and symbolist artists, poets and writers, including James McNeill Whistler, whose influence on the Spanish artist was particularly notable. On his return to Spain, Rusiñol developed his unique style which he translated into poetic paintings of landscapes and gardens, rendered in heightened, vibrant tones.
We are grateful to Mercedes Palau-Ribes for her assistance with this catalogue entry.

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