NICANOR PIÑOLE (Gijón, 1878 - 1978). Lot n° 77

NICANOR PIÑOLE (Gijón, 1878 - 1978). "Landscape". Oil on canvas. With repainting and restorations. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 60 x 81 cm; 75 x 100 cm (frame). In this work the author captures a landscape through a contemporary technique, with a palette dominated by warm tones, the work captures with a veristic intention the field work in a summer day. With rapid brushstrokes and intuitive touches, the impression of the whole prevails over detail, with the work focusing on lights, chromatic ranges and textures to the detriment of drawing. As the Royal Academy of History points out, "From 1912, on the occasion of his excursions to the Tarna pass and Pajares, he began to paint his first mountain landscapes, a theme that would be recurrent in his later production and especially from 1941, when he became friends with José Ramón Lueje and joined the Agrupación Montañera Astur Torrecerredo (Torrecerredo Asturian Mountaineering Group). In them he starts from a rigorous observation of reality, but transcends its meticulous description in favour of the essentials of an intensely lived nature". Piñole studied at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he moved in 1892. Shortly afterwards he took part in the Great Exhibition of the End of the Century held by the Gijón City Council. In 1901 he travelled to Paris and Rome, and on his return he settled in Gijón, although he made regular visits to Madrid, frequenting the Círculo de Bellas Artes and sharing ideas with Santiago Rusiñol. A favourite son of Asturias and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he was honoured on the occasion of the centenary of his birth with an exhibition held at the Jovellanos Museum in Gijón. Nicanor Piñole is represented in the Museum that bears his name in Gijón, as well as in the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias and in private collections both in Asturias and in other parts of Spain.