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Ramon Casas Prints
About Ramon Casas
Ramon Casas (1866–1932) was a Catalan painter, draughtsman and poster designer, born and died in Barcelona. He studied with Joan Vicens and, in the early 1880s, in the Paris studio of Carolus-Duran, and a self-portrait was accepted at the Paris Salon of 1883. In 1890 he settled in Montmartre with the painter Santiago Rusiñol, and in 1897 the two co-founded the Barcelona café Els Quatre Gats, a meeting place for artists of Catalan modernisme.
Ramon Casas is known for portraits, crowd scenes and posters. His painting Garrote vil (1894), showing a public execution, is in Madrid, and La càrrega (1902), a police charge on a crowd, won a first medal at the 1904 National Exhibition of Fine Arts. He made hundreds of charcoal portraits of Catalan cultural and political figures and gave 200 of them to Barcelona's museums in 1909. His colour lithograph poster for Anís del Mono (1898) is in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
Ramon Casas prints: reproductions of figure paintings by Ramon Casas, the Catalan painter of Barcelona's modernisme movement. Works here include Decadent Young Woman (1899), After the Dance and Foreshortened Female Nude.
This selection concentrates on Casas's paintings of women alone and at rest, including his scene of a young woman exhausted after a dance, and a study of the nude seen from an unusual angle. The tones are muted, with greys, blacks and soft flesh colours, and the mood is quiet and inward.
These intimate, muted works suit a bedroom, a dressing room or a reading corner, and the larger sizes work well above a bed or a sofa. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
