Sebastián Junyent

SEBASTIÁN JUNYENT SANS (Barcelona, 1865 - 1915).
"La creu de terme".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower left corner.

Sebastián Junyent was formed in the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi of Barcelona, specializing in the painting of genre and landscapes, cultivating in addition the technique of the tapestry fundamentally during his first years. A great friend of Pablo Picasso, with whom he shared his artistic interests, around 1900 he published several articles on aesthetic themes in the magazine "Joventut", one of the main magazines of the modernist movement in Catalonia. Throughout his career he held several individual exhibitions and participated in artistic contests and competitions such as the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1899, where he exhibited his canvas "Ex voto", or the Barcelona Exhibitions of 1894, 1896 and 1898, among others. Among his works it is worth mentioning the following, all of them presented in official exhibitions: "Un pregón en un pueblo del Montseny" (1894), "Matinada" (1896), "Una vegada era un rei" (1898), "Prometença", "Clorosi", "Mater dolorosa" (1904), "Cazador", "Bosquet de Vallvidrera" (1904), "Cabeza de estudio" and "Anunciación" (1901), among others.