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Portrait of Vincent Nubiola (Catalan: Retrat de Vicenç Nubiola) is an oil painting by Spanish artist Joan Miró. Painted in 1917 when Miró was 24 years old, a year before his first exhibition, the portrait is now considered a masterpiece from a period when he experimented with both Cubism and Fauvism. It is also said by some art critics to show the influence of Van Gogh. Acquired for a time by Picasso, the painting is now in the permanent collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen (Germany).[1]

Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
Artist	Joan Miró
Year	1917
Type	Oil painting
Dimensions	104 cm × 113 cm (41 in × 44 in)
Location	Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany

History

Miró showed an early passion for art, and attended drawing classes while he was at primary school,[2] but he had been heading for a career in banking when he had a nervous breakdown and decided to study art.[3] He met Vicenç Nubiola whilst studying life art at Barcelona's Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, a catholic-inspired art society, in 1913. Nubiola was a professor of agriculture at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. At the art society Miró also met Joan Prats, who became one of his lifelong friends[4] and eventually helped Miró to build his foundation.[5] Miró painted the Nubiola portrait during 1917[6] and shortly after. It was included in his first solo exhibition, at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona, catalogue number 46.[7][8][9][10]

Description

This is one of the well-known works from Miró's early period when he experimented with a mixture of both Cubism and Fauvism. At this time he made several landscapes and portraits, such as Portrait of Enric Cristòfol Ricart also from 1917 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Several authors comment that this work could be influenced by the style of Van Gogh[11][12] for whom Miró always felt admiration. The Nubiola portrait is signed Miró in the lower left margin.

The painting shows Nubiola sitting in a chair beside a table on which there are fruit, a porró (typical Catalan wine vessel for drinking directly without a glass), and a potted plant. The flat backdrop behind the figure is decorated with triangles and arcs.[1] The red of Nubiola's open collar shirt indicates his political radicalism; Miró painted himself wearing an identical shirt in a later self-portrait. This work was later acquired by Picasso.

Provenance

This portrait has been in the permanent collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen (Germany), since 1966 when it was purchased from the Galerie Wilhelm Großhennig in Düsseldorf. The purchase was made with the support from the state of North Rhine - Westphalia, the Westdeutsche Rundfunk,[1] and it entered the museum with the registration number Inv. G 351.[1]

See also

• Retrat de Vicenç Nubiola [ca]

References

Further reading

• Clavero, Jordi.J (2010). Fundació Joan Miró. Foundation's Guide. Barcelona: Polígrafa. ISBN 978-84-343-1242-5.

На других языках

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[de] Portrait Nubiola

Das Portrait Nubiola (auf katalanisch Retrat de Vicenç Nubiola) ist ein 1917 entstandenes Ölgemälde des Malers und Bildhauers Joan Miró. Es befindet sich in der ständigen Sammlung des Museum Folkwang in Essen.[1]

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- [en] Portrait of Vincent Nubiola

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[fr] Portrait de Vicenç Nubiola

Le Portrait de Vincent Nubiola est une peinture à l'huile peinte aux débuts de l'artiste catalan Joan Miró. La toile fut réalisée en 1917, alors que Miró avait 24 ans et un an avant sa première exposition. Le portrait est considéré comme l'un des chefs-d'œuvre de ses premières périodes, alors qu'il expérimentait un mélange de cubisme et de fauvisme. Certains critiques d'art y relèvent également l'influence de Van Gogh pour qui Miro eut toujours de l'admiration. La toile fut acquise un temps par Picasso et se trouve actuellement dans la collection permanente du Museum Folkwang en Essen (Allemagne).

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[ru] Портрет Винсента Нубиолы

«Портрет Винсента Нубиолы» (исп. Retrato de Vicenç Nubiola) — картина маслом Жоана Миро, написанная в 1917 году. Картина была написана, когда художнику было 24 года, за год до его первой выставки, и сейчас рассматривается как его ранний шедевр периода, в котором Миро экспериментировал с кубизмом и фовизмом. По словам некоторых критиков, на картину также повлиял Ван Гог. Некогда приобретённая Пикассо, картина сейчас находится в коллекции Музея Фолькванг.

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