Catalan school (XX) - NO RESERVE - Spring

Spring on the way

Style: Post-impressionist landscaping · Lyrical realism
Pictorial School: Catalan School · Second half of the 20th century

Technical sheet

Author: Catalan School, second half of the 20th century
Technique: oil on canvas
Measurements: 50 × 60 cm
Frame measurements: 60 × 70 cm
Signature: Signed in the lower right corner.
Quality frame, molded wood with a marbled finish in light tones, handcrafted, in harmony with the work and well preserved.

2. Compositional and iconographic description

The composition depicts a rural landscape of marked serenity, where a winding path guides the eye towards a group of traditional constructions, evoking a Catalan agricultural environment.

The scene is set in late spring: green meadows, white and yellow blooms, and a wide sky, painted with pinkish glazes and soft grays.

The brushstroke is loose but controlled, with selective impasto in the vegetation and a delicate atmospheric treatment that enhances the spatial depth and the contemplative character of the overall composition.

3. Style, School, and Comparative Valuation

The work is part of Catalan postwar landscape art, inheriting from Mediterranean post-impressionism and poetic realism cultivated by artists such as Eliseu Meifrèn, Joaquim Mir in his most lyrical aspect, or later landscape painters like Josep Maria Mallol Suazo.

Chromatic sensitivity, the balance between figuration and gestural freedom, and attention to landscape as an emotional space reinforce a coherent attribution to a Catalan painter active in the second half of the 20th century.

It is an honest and well-executed work, of notable decorative and pictorial quality, representing a solid and appreciated landscape tradition in the market.