Girl in Profile, attributed to Isidre Nonell Monturiol (1872-1911), signed and dated Nonell, 1906

Girl in Profile, attributed to Isidre Nonell Monturiol (1872-1911), signed and dated Nonell, 1906
Sanguine on paper. Paper measures: 28 x 20 cm, framed measures: 45 x 35 cm. Origin: old family collection, Barcelona. Isidre Nonell Monturiol (Barcelona, ​​November 30, 1872-Barcelona, ​​February 21, 1911) was a Spanish painter and draughtsman, belonging to modernism. Born in Barcelona on November 30, 1872, he belonged to a relatively wealthy family. He trained in various academies, including Luis Graner's, 1889. He was part of the Els Quatre Gats group, with Picasso, Rusiñol and others. He lived on the fringes of bourgeois society, which he criticized in his paintings. Around 1891 he formed a small group of landscapers, cultivating this genre in small format. In 1893 he studied at the Escuela de la Lonja in Barcelona and held his first exhibition. In 1894 he began to draw little pictures of Cretins, especially when he left, two years later, with Ricard Canals for Caldas de Bohí. He dedicated this time in Caldas to painting landscapes and cretins. In February 1897 he went to Paris with Canals. There he exhibited, shared a studio with Picasso and made his paintings on the lower social classes. He returned to Barcelona in 1900. From 1901 he made paintings of female figures, such as gypsies, and still lifes. He maintained a relationship with the gypsy model Consuelo, who became his muse.After Consuelo's early death, Nonell continued painting some gypsy women. Marked by impressionism, he is attached to modernism. He has also been considered in a certain way to continue the vision of the so-called black Spain with Regoyos and Solana. From that chapter are his portraits of cretins and gypsies, showing in their misery and pain the lower classes of society. Reference bibliography: Escala i Romeu, Glòria (2015). «The influence of Isidre Nonell on the young Picasso». Locus Amoenus 13: 169-185. ISSN 2014-8798.