Despite having a first stage of a more traditional character, around 1911 his work takes a turn when he travels to Paris and meets Picasso. Through the influence he received from the most primitive part of his production, he made metal figures and masks of various materials. With this new style, he settles in Barcelona, where he carries out several projects, among them the monument to the actor Iscle Soler (1918) or his participation in the International Exhibition of 1929. With the dictatorship, he went into exile in Paris where he stayed to live permanently. There he was influenced by Modigliani’s painting, causing important changes in the way he developed his human figures, now with more elongated faces and bodies, as we see in the work El Profeta (1933), which also highlights the incorporation of emptiness.
In the Suñol Soler Collection we find two works from these two outstanding periods; on the one hand, a polychrome mirror that shows his beginnings more in contact with the modernist tradition, and on the other, a bronze mask influenced by Picasso and cubism.
List of artworks
Masque de Kiki de Montparnasse , 1928
Miroir , 1903
Masque de Kiki de Montparnasse , 1928
Miroir , 1903
Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
In Three Acts
The third and final act goes into the great iconographic motive of art, the element that questions the chronologies and brings to this day the verisimilitude of the whole...
5th Anniversary
Josep Suñol's Collection
A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in...
Sculpture/Object
Josep Suñol Collection
36 pieces from the Josep Suñol Collection, ranging from the early avant-garde up to the most daring experiments of the...
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...
Perversidad. Mujeres fatales en el arte moderno (1880-1950)
2019
Museo Carmen Thyssen,...
FACE(S)
A project by Susoespai
FACE(S) presents a selection of works done by the people participating in the workshops of Susoespai as part of the visits to the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds...
Rosa Romero: Mira-mira
Performance
At the end of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the Fundació Suñol is organizing an artistic performance in collaboration with La Caldera les...
Per la cara!
Taller familiar
Amb motiu de l’exposició Vint rostres i tres multituds, el darrer acte del tríptic expositiu En tres actes, us proposem gaudir d'un taller per a tota la família on...
Dialogue with Pol Guash and Valentín Romà
Online video
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, we invite the writer Pol Guasch to have a dialogue with the co-curator of the exhibition series In...
Guided tour with Valentín Roma to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the last chapter of the thryptic In Three Acts,we suggest you visit the exhibition with Valentín...
Guided tour to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
Festa Major de Les Corts
Fundació Suñol organizes a visit to the exhibtion Twenty Faces and Three Crowds conducted by the fundation’s...
Sculpture/Object
The exhibition Sculpture/Object was the first of various commemorative events for Fundació Suñol’s 5th anniversary, held in 2012. It showed 36 pieces from the...
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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