He studied at the School of Fine Arts in La Coruña, where his father worked. Later, he studied for two years at the School of Fine Arts of La Lonja in Barcelona.
He was one of the artists who frequented Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona, a meeting place for avant-garde art, and where he held his first individual exhibition. In 1900 he travels for the first time to Paris, a central place for the artists of the time, accompanied by Carles Casagemas, whose suicide will be the trigger of Picasso’s blue period. After several trips he settles in Paris, in the bohemian district of Montmartre, from where he will begin his Rose period, a consequence of frequenting the Cirque Medrano and his relationship with Fernande Olivier. In 1907 he explores for the first time the compositional possibilities of cubism with the work Les Senyoretes d’Avinyò, marking the beginning of a very prolific and interesting stage in his career.
Following the bombing of Guernika, Picasso conceived one of his most important works: Guernica (1937), which was presented at the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937, in the context of the Spanish Civil War.
The Suñol Soler Collection includes the work Buste de femme à la bluse jaune (1943), which was part of the exhibition Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard. A sublime friendship organized by the Picasso Museum in Barcelona and the Paul Eluard Museum in Paris, venues where the work traveled in 2019 and 2023.
List of artworks
Busto de mujer con blusa amarilla , 1943
La tauromaquia , 1959
Busto de mujer con blusa amarilla , 1943
La tauromaquia , 1959
On paper
Josep Suñol Collection
Josep Suñol’s fascination with work on paper is strikingly captured by the fact that over thirty per cent of the pieces in his contemporary art collection are done on...
5th Anniversary
Josep Suñol's Collection
A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in...
1915 – 1995
Col·lecció Josep Suñol
Owing to the number of works in the collection, the first show included a selection of the most representative pieces dating from 1915 to...
Tauromachy
Pablo Picasso
A work from the Suñol Collection with texts by José Delgado, alias Pepe Illo, illustrated with 26 aquatints by Pablo...
Miró-Picasso
2023
The Fundació Suñol participates in the Miró-Picasso exhibition, organized jointly by the Museu Picasso and the Fundació Joan Miró of Barcelona, through the loan of Pablo Picasso's work Buste...
Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, une amitié sublime
2023
Musée d’art et d’histoire Paul Eluard, Saint-Denis...
Playing Art. Education, Art and Design
2019
Fundación Juan March,...
Les Escales
In 1976 Josep Suñol moved his residence to Les Escales, an address specially designed to house his growing collection of works of...
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