Sebastián Junyent

SEBASTIÁN JUNYENT SANS (Barcelona, 1865 - 1915)
"Landscape. Esplugues, 1938
Oil on canvas
Signed in the lower right corner.
Located and dated on the back.
Measurements: 47 × 62 cm, 66 × 80.5 cm (frame).

A luminous vision of the urban and rural landscape unfolds in this scene of Esplugues, where Sebastián Junyent articulates the composition from the bridge in the foreground, which acts as structural axis and conductor of the look towards the farmhouse and the distance. The treatment of color reveals a sensibility close to post-impressionism, with loose brushstrokes that synthesize forms and capture the atmosphere.

Sebastián Junyent studied at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona. 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 solo exhibitions and participated in artistic contests and competitions such as the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1899, or the Barcelona Exhibitions of 1894, 1896 and 1898, among others.