Maricel Museum will reopen on the first of April after the successful exhibition of Ramon Casas. In this new opening, the Museum will reincorporate eleven works in its permanent collection, some coming from their own collection and other recently arrived to the Museums of Sitges coming from acquisitions or grants. The Maricel Museum's permanent collection comprises 270 works.
Technicians working for the Heritage Consortium of Sitges just finalized the installation of Maricel Museum. On February 20, the day after closing the exhibition Ramon Casas, a long yearned modernity, work began in the reorganization of the halls under the coordination of the curator of the Collections of Museums of Sitges, Ignasi Domènech. Only two weeks later, the exhibition of Casas opened at CaixaForum in Madrid, where it will be until June 11, after receiving more than 38,000 visitors in Sitges.
To present Casas in every dimension, Museums of Sitges emptied three floors of the Maricel Museum. Now, with the reopening, the works are back in place and Maricel Museum and Cau Ferrat will recover their normal exhibition. Taking advantage of the reopening, Museums of Sitges will incorporate eleven works that will enrich the exhibition. We are dealing here with five works from the collection of Dr. Jesus Perez Rosales, both coming from Can Falç-now belonging to the area managed by the Consortium and currently being refurbished- two works in deposit (one from the National Art Museum of Catalonia and one of the Government of Catalonia) and two new acquisitions by Museums of Sitges, which have joined the Maricel collection.
These two new acquisitions are an oil by Joaquim Miró (Carrer d’en Bosch, around 1880) and Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, Dones a la platja (Women on the beach), towards 1888). Their entry into the Maricel collection allows expanding the art collection of the City of Sitges with two works by artists from the Illuminist School of Sitges.
The two pieces in deposit or under loan are from Joaquim Sunyer (L’oriol, 1911, MNAC) and the sculpture from Pere Jou, Nu amb les mans alçades (Nude with raised hands) dating from 1941, from the collection of the Catalan Government. The five works from the collection Perez Rosales joining the permanent collection are two oils by Pedro Onofre Cotto (that starred the Work of the Month in December), two anonymous Italian watercolors dating from early nineteenth century and a sculpture from Apelles Fenosa (c. 1925).
The new image offered by Maricel Museum also features two furnitures from Can Falç, one is a pine cradle veneered with mahogany root plywood (dating from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century) and a wooden dressing table from the third quarter of eighteenth century.
Two of these eleven works that will be added to Maricel Museum will be visible in the weeks to come, once finished the restoration work being carried out.
In parallel to the reopening of the Maricel Museum, Can Rocamora -the exhibition hall built in the museum ensemble comprised by Maricel and Cau Ferrat- inaugurates an exhibition by Emerencià Roig i Raventos (Sitges, 1881 - Barcelona, 1935) consisting of models of sailing boats, oil paintings, drawings, books and publications.