Santiago Rusiñol - SPANISH LA FUENTE DE LOS CIPRESES
Santiago Rusiñol
1861 - 1931
SPANISH
LA FUENTE DE LOS CIPRESES (THE CYPRESS FOUNTAIN)
LA FUENTE DE LOS CIPRESES (THE CYPRESS FOUNTAIN)
signed S. Rusiñol lower left
oil on canvas
100 by 85cm., 39½ by 33½in
oil on canvas
100 by 85cm., 39½ by 33½in
Painted in 1922, La fuente de los cipreses depicts the cypresses and fountain of a Franciscan convent on the outskirts of Játiva in Valencia, a region whose gardens Rusiñol had first started painting in 1901, and which drew him back again and again.
Rusiñol's burgeoning success as a painter enabled him to concentrate almost completely on the subject closest to his heart, Spain's gardens and landscapes. From 1900 he travelled widely across the regions of Spain, painting in Gerona, Horta, Cataluña, Valencia, Ibiza, Mallorca, Játiva, La Granja and Aranjuez. Wherever he went, Rusiñol recorded the sometimes domestic, at other times enigmatic, forms and rich vegetation of the shrubbery, orchards, flowerbeds and arboretums that he discovered.
Rusiñol's burgeoning success as a painter enabled him to concentrate almost completely on the subject closest to his heart, Spain's gardens and landscapes. From 1900 he travelled widely across the regions of Spain, painting in Gerona, Horta, Cataluña, Valencia, Ibiza, Mallorca, Játiva, La Granja and Aranjuez. Wherever he went, Rusiñol recorded the sometimes domestic, at other times enigmatic, forms and rich vegetation of the shrubbery, orchards, flowerbeds and arboretums that he discovered.
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