Rusiñol vist per Picasso

Rusiñol vist per Picasso
Maricel Museum
2nd June to 24^th September 2023

Sitges was one of Pablo Ruiz Picasso's favourite haunts. and  Museums of Sitges are a blatant proof. In their collections there are six works by the painter from Málaga. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Museus de Sitges - in collaboration with the Museu Picasso de Barcelona - scheduled a set of activities, which emphasize his links with the town and the relationship with Santiago Rusiñol. An exhibition, a route, conferences and other socio-cultural proposals will make it possible to visualize Sitges in the Picasso universe in a relevant way.

The commemoration of the Year of Picasso in Sitges highlights the direct links that the genius from Malaga had with Sitges in two phases of his life: on the one hand, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries - when he visited in several occasions, thanks to his friendship with the artist Carles Casagemas – and in the 1930s, after the death of Santiago Rusiñol that he met decades before, when he returned to visit the Cau Ferrat, which was being conditioned to open as a public museum.

Picasso's relationship with Sitges was significant and also had a direct impact on his work. His friendship with the painter Carles Casagemas – who spent periods in the town, as his mother was born in Sitges and his sisters lived there – attracted Picasso. Here he visited Cau Ferrat and met Santiago Rusiñol. In a short period of time, Picasso made 22 portraits of Rusiñol, at a time when the young artist approached Catalan Modernist intellectuals which were always present at Quatre Gats. In fact, it is believed that other portraits may appear there.

Rusiñol's painting was strongly influenced the young Picasso, and also by El Greco in a significant way, which the modernists claimed and projected. Since 1894, Cau Ferrat housed two works by the Cretan artist that Rusiñol had acquired in Paris: Les llagrimes de Sant Pere and Magdalena penitent.

Santiago Rusiñol became a pioneer in collecting works by Picasso at the turn of the century. The Cau Ferrat Museum has a painting of his in its background (La cursa de braus) and five drawings. All date from the years 1900-01.

The exhibition The set of Rusiñol's portraits made by Picasso constitute one of the central axes of the exhibition Rusiñol vist per Picasso, organized by Museu de Sitges, with the collaboration of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. The exhibition is coordinated by Ignasi Domènech, head of Sitges Museum Collections, and has significant contributions from the doctor in Art History Eduard Vallès. The inauguration took place today at the Maricel Museum, where it can be visited until September 24.

Rusiñol vist per Picasso presents 29 works, 9 come from the Picasso Museum, loaned to Sitges Museums for the exhibition. The six pieces from the Cau Ferrat Museum are also on display, as well as other works from private collections. Also on display are reproductions of Picasso drawings obtained from periodical magazines and publications and of which, in some cases, the originals are unknown.

The portraits that Rusiñol made of Picasso are the common thread of the exhibition. There are some that are made in unusual supports, such as, for example, an inventory book of a grocery store, the result of the creative voracity of the artist from Málaga at that time. In addition to Rusiñol, Ramon Casas, Miquel Utrillo, Ramon Pichot and Júlia Peraire are also present. Among the reproduced works, there are two from the Musée National Picasso in Paris that were unpublished until 1990.

The activities. In addition to the exhibition, the Picasso Year celebration in Sitges is accompanied by other activities organized by Museus de Sitges. Cultural routes, conferences and workshops make up the entire proposal, which starts this first weekend of June and ends in October.

PROGRAM

Cultural route: Picasso and Sitges, a physical and sentimental cartography
Sundays June 4, July 16, August 6 and September 3, 2023

A physical and intellectual itinerary through the streets of Sitges tracing the connections with Picasso through various approaches. In this itinerary, names such as Picasso, Rusiñol, Utrillo, Casagemas, El Greco, Maricel, Cau Ferrat or the Platja de Sant Sebastià intersect, based on documents and testimonies that link Sitges with one of the most relevant artists in the history of the art.

Conference: Picasso and the Cau Ferrat de Sitges, the artists, their works and the aroma of history. By Eduard Vallès
Sunday, June 16, 2023, 7 p.m., Museu del Cau Ferrat

The Museu del Cau Ferrat has a Picasso oil in its background (La cursa de braus) and four drawings (La familia de Don Paco en casa, Dues dones ballant, Dues figures de dones / Fauna de taverna i Dues dones sentades / Papallones d’ales cremades), all dated between 1900 and 1901.Four years ago the doctor in art history Eduard Vallès shed new light on the disappearance of a Picasso drawing in Cau Ferrat, shortly after the death of Santiago Rusiñol.

Conference: Picasso in Sitges, the construction of a story. By Vinyet Panyella
Friday, September 15, 2023, 7 p.m., Cau Ferrat Museum
The painting and drawings of Cau Ferrat, the works lost in Sitges, the relationship with Rusiñol, the friendship with Casagemas (and the impact his death had on him)... Sitges appears punctually in the trajectory of the first Picasso and some experienced  episodes marked his work.

Family workshop: Picasso's blues
Thursday July 13 and August 3, Maricel Museum
Workshop for children, who will experience creations based on the use of Picasso's blues and the Museu del Cau Ferrat

Cultural trip to Malaga
6 – 8 October 2023
With a visit to Picasso's birthplace and his Museum, as well as other museums and spaces in the city.

WORKS FROM THE EXHIBITION 'RUSIÑOL AS SEEN BY PICASSO'

The Picassos of the Cau Ferrat Museum:

La cursa de braus (El quite)
1900
Oil painting, gouache, pastel and charcoal pencil on cardboard
16 x 30,5 cm

La familia de D. Paco en su casa
1900-01
Drawing in ink, watercolor and pastel on paper
13,1 x 20 cm

Fauna de taverna
1900-01
Drawing in ink, watercolor and pastel on paper
13,2 x 20,2 cm

Papallones d’ales cremades
1900-01
Drawing in charcoal pencil, ink, watercolor and pastel on paper
13,2 x 19,4 cm 

Dues dones ballant
1900-01
Charcoal and pastel pencil drawing on paper
13,2 x 20,2 cm

Punts de rostre i ma
1900-01
Charcoal pencil drawing on paper
13,2 x 20,2 cm

Other exhibited works:

Retrat de Santiago Rusiñol
1899-1900
Pen ink and watercolor on paper
10,3 x 9,2  cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

Santiago Rusiñol, pierrots i altres croquis
1899-1900
Pencil Contains on paper
23,5 x 33,8  cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

Retrat de Santiago Rusiñol
c. 1903
Watercolor and ink on paper
21,6 x 15,6 cm
Borrowed by an individual

Santiago Rusiñol caracteritzat com "El cavaller de la mà al pit" by El Greco, Josep Rocarol Faura i altres croquis
1899-1900
Pen ink, gouache and graphite pencil on paper
23 x 33,4  cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

Santiago Rusiñol i caricatura de Ramon Pichot
1899-1900
Ink in pen and watercolor on paper
32,3 x 22  cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

Retrat de Santiago Rusiñol
1899-1900
Pen ink on paper
11,1 x 12  cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

Miquel Utrillo and Santiago Rusiñol fumant en pipa
1903
Sepia ink in pen on a card stock printed by Junyer Hnos. successors of Suari and Junyer
9,1 x 13,5  cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

"Lo que Rusiñol se pensaba"
1903
Pen ink on a printed cardboard card from the Junyer Hnos house. successors of Suari and Junyer
13,3 x 8,8 cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

La pintura (parody of the work "Allegory of Poetry", by Santiago Rusiñol)
1896-1900
Pencil Contains on paper
33,4 x 23,5 cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

Bust d’un home i cap de dona (with imitations of the signatures of Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas and Ramon Pichot)
1899-1900
Pencil Contains colored pencil on paper
22,4 x 31,7 cm
Loaned by the Picasso Museum (Barcelona)

Retrat de Santiago Rusiñol
C. 1900
Charcoal and watercolor on paper
33 x 23 cm

Santiago Rusiñol
1899-1900
Black wax on verjurat paper
31 x 23,5  cm

Santiago Rusiñol
1899-1900
Black wax on verjurat paper
31 x 23,5  cm

Retrat de Santiago Rusiñol, dues caricatures de caps i dos estudis de composicions
Winter 1899-1900
Charcoal and pencil on paper
30,5 x 21  cm

Retrats de Ramon Casas i Santiago Rusiñol
1899-1900
Charcoal and colored pencil on paper
31,5 x 22 cm

Retrat de Santiago Rusiñol
1900
Pen ink and watercolor on paper
4,9 x 4,9 cm cm

Santiago Rusiñol en un jardí
1900-1901
Ink on paper (original)
18 x 13,2 X cm

Santiago Rusiñol i rostres and Miquel Utrillo, Sebastià Junyer-Vidal, Pere Mañach, Ricard Canals and his son Octavi Canals
1903
Pen ink on paper
29,4 x 18,8  cm

Rusiñol, Utrillo i una venedora de periòdics (Júlia Peraire)
1903-1904
Pen ink on paper
Sizes unknown

Casas, Rusiñol y Utrillo
c. 1903
Pen and ink on card
Sizes unknown

Caricatura de Rusiñol y Casas, dressed up
1903
Colored pencil and ink on card
13,3 x 7,9  cm

La Gloria-Critico (Santiago Rusiñol sodomized)
c. 1903
Ink on card
9 x 13,5

El gladiador herido
1903
Pen and ink on card
Sizes unknown

Croqis de perfil de Santiago Rusiñol
Winter 1899-1900
Charcoal and pencil on paper
30,5 x 21 cm