Ramon Casas i Carbó (Catalan Spanish artist) 1866 - 1932
La Tuberculosi Amenaça la Vida i la Riquesa de Catalunya (Tuberculosis Threatens the Life and Wealth of Catalonia), 1922
Anti-tuberculosis Poster
colour lithograph on paper
106.3 x 55 cm.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Together with Rusiñol he was one of the founding members of the El Quatre Gats circle of artists in Barcelona, and a eading representative of the Catalan Modernista movement, Ramón Casas abandoned his studies when he was 11 years old in order to pursue his vocation as a painter. In 1882, aged just 16 years and with the financial support of his father, he travelled to Paris with Santiago Rusiñol. There he studied under Carolus Duran and at the Academie Gervex, where Carrière and Puvis de Chavannes taught. His talent did not go unnoticed, and just a year later he exhibited at the Salon des Champs Elysées.
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