Andrés Larraga

ANDRÉS LARRAGA Y MONTANER (Valtierra, Navarre, 1862 – Barcelona, 1931).
“Landscape.”
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
Measurements: 48 x 80 cm; 57 x 88 cm (frame).

Larraga began his artistic training in Barcelona as a student of Josep Armet, a landscape painter who was a follower of Martí Alsina and the Barbizon School. Consequently, his early works are characterized by a Romantic style of landscape painting, with references to Millet. In 1886, he arrived in Paris, where he was exposed to the work of Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet, as well as Impressionist painting. It is not known how long the painter stayed in Paris, although he did alternate his travels with stays in Barcelona, where in 1887 he participated in his first group exhibition, organized at the Parés Gallery. In addition to exhibiting regularly at the Parés Gallery, he participated in the Extraordinary Fine Arts Exhibitions in Barcelona and in the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Madrid in 1922. Works by Larraga are preserved at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts of Navarre.