Jose Mongrell Torrent (1870-1937) - Retrato
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Oil portrait painting titled Retrato by Jose Mongrell Torrent (1870–1937), created in 1891 in Spain, in the Contemporary style, measuring 80 by 58 cm, in good condition, signed by hand, sold with a carved wooden frame gilded in gold.
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He studied at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia, where he was a pupil of Ignacio Pinazo and Joaquín Sorolla. His participation in various competitions and exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona earned him some renown among artistic circles. He made the bullfighting poster for the San Jaime Fair in Valencia in 1897, with great success.
He obtained a teaching post for the School of Fine Arts of San Jorge in Barcelona, where he resided for the rest of his life. On the front of the Hall of San Jorge at the Palace of the Generalitat of Catalonia he carried out a large-scale work, by order of the president of the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Count of Montseny, representing the Virgin of Montserrat with saints and kings paying homage to her.
He produced genre painting, portraits and costumbrista themes with Valencian ambience, very much in the Sorolla line, where reminiscences of 19th-century art and a certain statism in the figures can be perceived. There is his work in the National Museum of Ceramics and of the Decorative Arts "González Martí" and in the San Pío V, both in Valencia, and in the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias.
The person portrayed is one of the painter's grandfathers, which the family does not know whether he was the paternal or maternal grandfather.
Framed in a wooden frame with a carved pediment and gilded in gold leaf.
He studied at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia, where he was a pupil of Ignacio Pinazo and Joaquín Sorolla. His participation in various competitions and exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona earned him some renown among artistic circles. He made the bullfighting poster for the San Jaime Fair in Valencia in 1897, with great success.
He obtained a teaching post for the School of Fine Arts of San Jorge in Barcelona, where he resided for the rest of his life. On the front of the Hall of San Jorge at the Palace of the Generalitat of Catalonia he carried out a large-scale work, by order of the president of the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Count of Montseny, representing the Virgin of Montserrat with saints and kings paying homage to her.
He produced genre painting, portraits and costumbrista themes with Valencian ambience, very much in the Sorolla line, where reminiscences of 19th-century art and a certain statism in the figures can be perceived. There is his work in the National Museum of Ceramics and of the Decorative Arts "González Martí" and in the San Pío V, both in Valencia, and in the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias.
The person portrayed is one of the painter's grandfathers, which the family does not know whether he was the paternal or maternal grandfather.
Framed in a wooden frame with a carved pediment and gilded in gold leaf.
Details
Artist
Jose Mongrell Torrent (1870-1937)
Sold with frame
Yes
Title of artwork
Retrato
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
1891
Condition
Good condition
Height
80 cm
Width
58 cm
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Contemporary
Period
19th century
