This retrospective of the late 19th-century Catalan painter, Isidre Nonell, comprises 58 paintings and 45 sketches. Unappreciated by the conservative public and critics in native Barcelona, Nonell was relatively successful in Paris in the 1890s where he was considered a modern Goya. Living off commercial illustration, at which he excelled, Nonell obstinately refused to listen to the negative Barcelona critics. This chronological exhibition shows his progress from naturalism, his period of Gypsy themes and the still-life genre he adopted shortly before his early death.
