The MNAC and the Prado exhibit works from Cau Ferrat

Two important exhibitions in the artistic agenda of Barcelona and Madrid show various works from the Museu del Cau Ferrat. We are dealing here with Samples from Suzanne Valadons. A modern epic. recently inaugurated at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and Art and social transformations in Spain (1885 - 1910), which will be held on May 21 at the Museu del Prado.

The figure of the artist and model Suzanne Valadon (Bessines-sur-Gartempe, 1865 - Paris, 1938) is present in the Cau Ferrat Press thanks to acarbon drawing portrait painted by Miquel Utrillo and that now is exposed at the MNAC exhibition. Portrait of Suzanne Valadon (1891) is a carbon drawing, sanguina and pastel touches on paper, actually present at the small office of Museu del Cau Ferrat. Last year it was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Metz, as part of a monographic exhibition dedicated to Valadon. Recently, the painting also travelled to three exhibitions in Tokio (2020) and Malaga (2019).

Apart from the drawing, the exhibition Suzanne Valadon. A modern epic also shows an important work by the same Utrillo and that is part of the Cau Ferrat collection: Vista de l'absis de Notre Dame de Paris, sota la neu (1895). It is one of the few oils painted by Utrillo and shows a diffuse light typical of a snowy landscape, the image of Notre Dame from behind.

On the other hand, Museu del Prado will exhibit five paintings from Cau Ferrat in the second great exhibition, Art and Social Transformations in Spain (1885 - 1910), which focuses on the irruption of naturalism as an aesthetic scene that allowed to capture daily and everyday life. The five works from Museu del Cau Ferrat are three by Santiago Rusiñol: La casa de prestecs (1899), Malalt convalescent (1892) by Ramon Canuda and Retrat dels anarquistes del procés de Montjuïc (c.1893); anotherby Picasso, Fauna de taberna (1900-01) and one by Ramon Pichot, Un enterrament (1897).