After the critical and commercial success of two joint exhibitions – The Golden Age of Spanish Modern Art and Spanish Modern Landscapes 1880 - 1950 – held in very difficult circumstances because of the health crisis, the Sala Parés, Artur Ramon Art and Colnaghi continue to work together in their mission to promote, disseminate and export Catalan and Spanish art around the world.

On this occasion, the three galleries present Barcelona – Paris (1860 - 1936). A journey to Modernity, an exhibition focusing on the period between 1860 and 1936 to explore the centripetal force that the city on the Seine exerted on Spanish and Catalan artists in their formative years. If Rome was the capital of Europe for any artist in the first half of the 19th century, when the last echoes of the Grand Tour still resounded, in the second half the capital shifted to Paris. During this period, artists absorbed a variety of languages ranging from Courbet’s realism to the mundane life portrayed by Béraud, via the early stages of Impressionism, when light became colour. Later on, Toulouse-Lautrec and his intimate and personal world, the emergence of Post-Impressionism – with the primitivism of Gauguin and the raw power of Van Gogh, so ahead of his time –, the rediscovery of geometry by Cézanne and of the primary colours by the Fauves, together with Steinlen and Beardsley’s illustrations, among many others, had an even stronger influence on our artists, as can be seen in this exhibition. Artists who drew from these trends and from whom we present carefully selected works, most of which come from private collections and have not been exhibited for many years.