Portrait of the Painter's Wife and his son Richard

Canals, Ricard

Barcelona, 1876/12/11-Barcelona, 1931/02/07

Oil on canvas

143.5 x 85.5 cm

R. Canals (top right hand corner)

c. 1918

First quarter of the 20th century

82/22

Contributed by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia in 1920

Acquired in the First International Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures celebrated in Bilbao in September 1919, this painting made by the Catalan painter and engraver Ricard Canals, is a brilliant example of an early 20th century modernist style characterized by its own features inherited by the Spanish school

Selected bibliography

Primera Exposición Internacional de Pintura y Escultura. Bilbao, [s.n.], 1919. n° cat. 209.
Exposició d' Art. Barcelona, Barcelona, 1919. n° cat. 498.
"Exposicion internacional de pintura y escultura", Hermes : revista del Pais Vasco, n° 46-47. 1919.
Santos Torroella, Rafael. "Ricardo Canals en el centenario de su nacimiento", Goya : revista de arte, n° 134. 1976. pp. 73-79.
Bengoechea, Javier de. Catálogo de arte moderno y contemporáneo del Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya, 1980. p. 40. (Con el título Retratos).
Manterola, Ismael [coord.]; Onaindia, Mikel [coord.]. "Bilbao 1919 : la Exposición Internacional de Pintura y Escultura = Bilbao 1919 : Nazioarteko Pintura eta Eskultura Erakusketa [Recurso electrónico]", Boletin 11 = Bulletina 11. 2019. pp. 74, 104-105, il.