Josep Sarquella

JOSEP SARQUELLA ESCOBET (Llagostera, Girona, 1928 - Palamós, Girona, 2000).
"Market in Mediterranean street (Palamós)", 1966.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 72 × 97.5 cm; 87 × 113.5 cm (frame).

The work captures with immediacy and vividness a daily scene of a market, where commercial activity unfolds among awnings, stalls and figures in constant transit. The diagonal perspective composition leads the eye along the street, generating depth and dynamism.

The loose brushstroke, together with a luminous palette of warm tones and contrasting blues, builds an atmosphere of intense luminosity and open air. The interest in light, color and popular life places the work within a fully Mediterranean sensibility, where the everyday is transformed into a pictorial scene of great freshness.

An impressionist painter, Josep Sarquella settled in Barcelona in 1949, where he trained at the Círculo Artístico and Sant Lluc. From his first individual exhibition in 1958 he developed an active career with exhibitions in Spain and abroad, being awarded on several occasions. He mainly cultivated landscape, marine and Mediterranean urban scenes, and his work is represented in Spanish museums and collections.