Josep de Togores

JOSEP DE TOGORES LLACH (Cerdanyola del Vallès, 1893 - Barcelona, 1970).
"Landscape", 1929.
Charcoal on paper.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Provenance: Galerie Simon, Paris, on the back.
Measurements: 20 x 33 cm.

Josep de Togores is interested in painting at the age of thirteen and, after training and traveling around Europe, with eighteen he is already an artist of important presence in Barcelona. With a scholarship from the city council, he moved to Paris to study, where he became acquainted with the painting of Cézanne, who would be a decisive influence on his work from then on. His work is present in the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, the Museo Nacional del Arte de Cataluña, the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Museo de Arte de Sabadell, the Städtisches Gelsenkirchen Museum (Germany), the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid), the Palacio Nacional de Montjuic and the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), among others.