Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in an Automobile (Q7289817)
Label from: English (en)
movement:
Catalan modernism (Q1122677)
Art Nouveau (Q34636)
genre:
portrait (Q134307)
artist:
Ramon Casas (Q725681)
collection:
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Q861252)
location:
Els Quatre Gats (Q1333395)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Q861252)
owned by:
Generalitat of Catalonia (Q8022)
location of final assembly:
Barcelona (Q1492)
depicts:
Ramon Casas (Q725681)
Pere Romeu i Borràs (Q2512368)
motor car (Q1420)
man (Q8441)
tree (Q10884)
dog (Q144)
pipe (Q104526)
beard (Q42804)
cap (Q6147804)
smoking (Q662860)
cigar (Q1576)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: http://www.museunacional.cat/en/colleccio/ramon-casas-and-pere-romeu-motor-car/ramon-casas/214453-000
information from the Els Quatre Gats catalog
description: In 1901, this painting replaced another one in which the same characters are depicted riding a tandem bicycle and that used to decorate Els Quatre Gats since its inauguration in 1897. Casas managed to make the image transmit the feeling of movement thanks to the attitude of the two characters as well as the wheels of the car, in which the spokes are not visible. The artist might have chosen to depict himself driving a car because not only is it a vehicle much more representative of the 20
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