Ignasi Mundó Plaza Nova Barcelona Gothic Quarter Oil Painting Spanish Fauvist Cityscape 1986
sitges, Spain
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Style
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Plaza Nova Barcelona Gothic Quarter Oil Painting Spanish Fauvist Cityscape
Artist: Ignasi Mundó Marcet (1918–2012)
Title: Plaza Nova, Barcelona
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: circa 1986
Signature: Signed lower right. Titled verso
Condition: Very good overall condition
Frame: Unframed
Dimensions (artwork): 73 × 60 cm (28.75 × 23.63 in)
Charming architectural view of Plaza Nova in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, painted circa 1986 by Catalan artist Ignasi Mundó Marcet.
The composition captures the medieval Roman gate towers and surrounding historic streets through a luminous Mediterranean palette and expressive brushwork characteristic of the post-impressionist Catalan cityscape tradition. The presence of small figures animates the urban scene and reinforces the atmospheric sense of scale typical of Barcelona painting developed throughout the twentieth century.
Paintings depicting recognizable locations from Barcelona’s historic center are especially sought after by international collectors, particularly those connected with the visual lineage of the Catalan School of La Llotja and the Mediterranean modern landscape tradition.
A refined example of late twentieth-century Barcelona urban painting combining architectural structure with painterly interpretation of light and space.
Ignasi Mundó Marcet (Barcelona, 1918–2012) trained at the prestigious Escola de La Llotja, where he studied with Joaquín Mir, Mariano Pidelaserra and Manolo Hugué. In 1945 he received a scholarship to travel to Paris and later continued his studies in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy.
He exhibited regularly in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and Rome and received numerous awards including the Medalla Cézanne, the Ciutat de Terrassa Prize, the Sant Jordi Prize and the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize. His work is represented in private and institutional collections in Spain and Europe.
This painting belongs to the twentieth-century Barcelona urban landscape tradition developed by artists associated with the Escola de La Llotja and the broader Catalan modern painting lineage.
Its treatment of architectural rhythm, atmospheric perspective and Mediterranean tonal structure connects with the legacy of painters such as Joaquín Mir, Isidre Nonell, Manolo Hugué and the Barcelona circle surrounding Noucentisme and post-impressionist Catalan landscape painting.
More broadly, the expressive handling of structure and color relates to European modern cityscape traditions developed by Maurice Utrillo, André Derain and Raoul Dufy, while the architectural simplification of urban form resonates with later twentieth-century interpretations of Mediterranean cities explored by Nicolas de Staël and the School of Paris environment.
Within the international context of modern architectural painting, the work also echoes the tradition of urban observation associated with Camille Pissarro’s Paris views and the structured city compositions later explored by painters working between impressionism and modern expressionist landscape language.
Barcelona painting
Gothic Quarter Barcelona
Plaza Nova Barcelona
Spanish cityscape painting
Catalan modern painting
Barcelona architecture painting
Mediterranean cityscape
European urban landscape
School of La Llotja
Spanish Fauvist painting
Barcelona street scene
historic Barcelona painting
Spanish modernist cityscape
20th century Barcelona artwork
Additional dimensions information:
Height: 73 cm (28.75 in)Width: 60 cm (23.63 in)
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