Where can you see Isidre Nonell in Barcelona?

At the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya: Two Gypsy Women and Rest. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Isidre Nonell's most famous work in Barcelona?

Two Gypsy Women, of 1903, at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Two women huddled together in shawls of orange and green, their faces hidden, in the heavy paint he made his own.

When and where was Isidre Nonell born?

On 30 November 1872, at Barcelona, Spain. Isidre Nonell died on 21 February 1911, at Barcelona, Spain, aged about 39.

What is Isidre Nonell known for?

Painted gypsy women almost exclusively from about 1901. The young Picasso used his studio in Paris. Died of typhoid in 1911, months after his first success. Isidre Nonell was a Catalan painter, of Post-Impressionism.

Painter, 1872 to 1911

Isidre Nonell

Isidre Nonell painted those that the Barcelona of the modernistes did not want to see: beggars, the sick, and above all the gypsy women of the city's edges, folded into their shawls. Success came with an exhibition in 1910, a few months before he died.

Born: 1872, Barcelona, Spain
Died: 1911, Barcelona, Spain
Movement: Post-Impressionism
In Barcelona: 2 works in 1 museum

Where to see Isidre Nonell in Barcelona

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya2 works

Two Gypsy Women
1903
Two women huddled together in shawls of orange and green, their faces hidden, in the heavy paint he made his own.
Rest
1904
A woman sitting folded over in a yellow shawl, her head on her knees, more a shape of tiredness than a portrait.

The life of Isidre Nonell

Nonell was born in Barcelona and trained there. In the 1890s he painted the outskirts of the city with a group of young painters, and drew the victims of the colonial wars and of cretinism in the Pyrenees. In Paris he was admired, and the young Picasso, who used his studio, learnt from him.

From about 1901 he painted almost nothing but gypsy women, alone or in pairs, in thick, dark paint lit with colour. He was mocked for it in Barcelona until an exhibition of 1910 was a success. He died of typhoid the next winter, at thirty-eight.

What to know

Painted gypsy women almost exclusively from about 1901
The young Picasso used his studio in Paris
Died of typhoid in 1911, months after his first success

Born: 30 November 1872, Barcelona, Spain
Died: 21 February 1911, Barcelona, Spain

Isidre Nonell: common questions

Where can you see Isidre Nonell in Barcelona?: At the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya: Two Gypsy Women and Rest. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Isidre Nonell's most famous work in Barcelona?: Two Gypsy Women, of 1903, at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Two women huddled together in shawls of orange and green, their faces hidden, in the heavy paint he made his own.
When and where was Isidre Nonell born?: On 30 November 1872, at Barcelona, Spain. Isidre Nonell died on 21 February 1911, at Barcelona, Spain, aged about 39.
What is Isidre Nonell known for?: Painted gypsy women almost exclusively from about 1901. The young Picasso used his studio in Paris. Died of typhoid in 1911, months after his first success. Isidre Nonell was a Catalan painter, of Post-Impressionism.

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