Sitges Cau Ferrat house and Maricel Art Gallery
Former home of artist Santiago Rusiñol now a museum that exhibits his art and collections. Art, furniture and sculptures by important Spanish modernist artists
About Sitges Cau Ferrat house and Maricel Art Museum
Cau Ferrat Museum and Maricel Museum are co-joined museums that form part of the Museums of Sitges and are part of the Art Museum of Catalonia collection. Sitges was an important town at the turn of the 19th Century for artists musicians and writers.
About Cau Ferrat Museum
The building dates from 1893 is the former home of artist and writer Santiago Rusiñol Prats (1861-1931), one of the most important figures of the Catalan Modernist movement. The Cau Ferrat Museum is the former home and workshop of Santiago Rusiñol, becoming a museum in 1933.
Cau Ferrat consists of a ground floor living quarters consisting of a kitchen, study, bedroom, reception and hallway. The staircase goes up to the first floor main hall which is a huge open space with high vaulted ceiling supported by wooden beams. It is reminiscent of a church or large council meeting room and contains a vast collection of Art. Between 2010 and 2014 the building and museum space was restored.
- Santiago Rusiñol
- Ramón Casas y Carbó: (1866 - 1932) painter
- Pablo Ruiz Picasso: more details in the Picasso Museum Barcelona page.
- Ramon Pichot Gironès: (1871 - 1925) impressionist Artist and early mentor of Salvador Dalí
- Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta: (1870 - 1945) Spanish painter from the basque region
- Darío de Regoyos y Valdés: (1857 - 1913) impresionist painter
- William Degouve de Nuncques: (1867 - 1935) Belgium painter that resided in Catalonia for a brief period
- Manuel Martinez Hugué: (1872 - 1945) sculptor of the noucentisme movement
- Enric Clarasó i Daudí: (1857 - 1841) modernist sculptor
- Pablo Emilio Gargallo Catalán (Pau Gargallo): (1881 - 1831) modernist painter sculptor
The Museum contains collections of art gathered by the artist such as paintings, forged metal, ceramics, glass, sculptures, furniture and modern art. The museum also contains works by:
About Maricel Museum
- Dr Jesús Pérez-Rosales: was a wealthy doctor and art collector who dontated his art collection to the Maricel Museum.
The Maricel Museum is a broad collection of art dating from the tenth century to realism and figuration during the first half of the twentieth century.
- Miquel Utrillo i Morlius: Painter and Engineer/architect who built Maricel Palace for American Millionaire and art collector Chales Deering. Miquel Utrillo would later build the Poble Espanyol for the 1929 workd Exhibition.
- Arcadi Mas i Fondevila: (1852 - 1931) painter and draftsman, founder of the Illuminist School of Sitges (landscape paintings)
- Artur Carbonell i Carbonell: (1906 - 1973) surealist painter and theatre artistic director
- Agustí Ferrer and Pino: (1884 - 1960) painter
Acquisitions by the Sitges Heritage Association since 2012
- Joaquím Sunyer: (1874 - 1956) painter in the style of novecentista
- Lola Anglada i Sarriera: writer, comic artist and painter
- Alfred Sisquella and Oriol: painter of still lifes, landscapes and interior scenes
- Furniture from Can Falç:. Can Falç is the stately family home for 14 generations of one of the Sitges's most powerful families. It is currently being transformed into a history museum and cultural center following the death of the last in the line.
The Maricel Museum's own collection was complemented with several works from loans and deposits from art collections of the Government of Catalonia, the Museum of the Provincial Government of Barcelona and the Montserrat Museum, primarily with artists from "Modernisme" and "Noucentisme" linked to Sitges such as:
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