Joaquim Mir

JOAQUIM MIR TRINXET (Barcelona, 1873 - 1940).
"Figura".
Mixed media on paper.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 40 x 27 cm; 70 x 56 cm (frame).
Joaquín Mir studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Jordi in Barcelona and in the workshop of the painter Luis Graner. His style was also influenced by the School of Olot, his father's hometown. In 1893 he formed the "Colla del Safrà" together with artists such as Isidro Nonell, Ricard Canals or Ramón Pichot, and in the last years of the century he was associated with the artistic environment of "Els Quatre Gats". He completed his training in 1895, when he spent a season in Madrid copying works by Velázquez. He took part in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts, being awarded the second medal in 1899 and 1901, and an honorary medal in 1930. He was also awarded the first medal at the International Exhibitions of Barcelona in 1907 and 1929. He achieved definitive recognition at the national level in 1917, when he was awarded the National Prize of Fine Arts. Although he was mainly a native painter, he had solo and group exhibitions in Washington, Paris, Pittsburg, New York, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Venice. Mir is today considered the most outstanding representative of Spanish post-impressionist landscape painting. His work is preserved in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among many others. During the years he lived in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Mir represented the beach and the surrounding cobblestone streets from multiple perspectives.