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Modest Urgell i Inglada, also known by the nickname Katúfol (13 June 1839, Barcelona - 3 April 1919, Barcelona) was a Spanish landscape painter and comic playwright. He used his nickname for cartoons and illustrations.

He was born to a wealthy family. In his youth, he was interested in the theater and participated in several amateur companies, but his family did not want him to associate with actors, so he agreed to study painting instead.

He studied at the Escola de la Llotja with Ramón Martí Alsina, Claudi Lorenzale and Lluís Rigalt.[1] During the 1860s, he attempted to show his works in exhibitions at the Escola, but they were rejected. He exhibited in Madrid, instead, but with very little success.[2] In 1868, he made a trip to Paris where he spent some time with Gustave Courbet and was influenced by the Barbizon school.[1]

In 1870, there was a yellow fever outbreak in Barcelona, so he went to Olot, where he joined with Antoni Caba and a friend from the Escola, Joaquim Vayreda, to create landscapes en plein air.[2] While there, he decided to devote himself exclusively to that genre.

After the creation of the Sala Parés in 1877, he exhibited there regularly.[2] His works also received positive critical attention at the National Exhibitions in 1876, 1892 and 1895, when he won first prize. He also won major awards at expositions in Barcelona, Munich, and Philadelphia. In 1894, following the death of Rigalt, he was appointed Professor of perspective and landscape at the Escola de Belles Arts de Barcelona [ca].[1] In 1900, together with Lluís Graner and Enric Galwey, he helped create the "Sociedad Artística y Literaria de Cataluña".

In the late 1890s, he returned to his early interest in the theater, working as a scenic director. He also wrote several plays;[2] notably the comedy, Lluny dels Ulls, a Prop del Cor (Far from the Eyes, Near to the Heart), which premiered at the Teatre Principal in 1901. Most of his plays have rural settings. None of them were very successful.

His works consist almost entirely of landscapes and maritime scenes, often set in isolated places such as cemeteries and monasteries,[1] but he created illustrations depicting the Tragic Week of 1909 and the Rif War as well. His son, Ricardo Urgell Carreras, was also a painter.

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  • URGELL INGLADA, MODEST
    Jul. 15, 2026

    URGELL INGLADA, MODEST

    Est: -

    (1839-1919). "Church at Sunset". Oil on canvas laid on panel, signed. Measurements: 15 x 23 cm.

    Bonanova Subastas
  • MODESTO URGELL - Landscape
    Jun. 30, 2026

    MODESTO URGELL - Landscape

    Est: -

    MODESTO URGELL Barcelona 1839 - 1919 Landscape Oil on canvas Signed Measurements 81 x 152 cm

    Subastas Segre
  • Modesto Urgell. Landscape
    Jun. 23, 2026

    Modesto Urgell. Landscape

    Est: -

    Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner.

    Duran Arte y Subastas
  • Modesto Urgell. Landscape
    Jun. 23, 2026

    Modesto Urgell. Landscape

    Est: -

    Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner

    Duran Arte y Subastas
  • URGELL INGLADA, MODEST
    Jun. 11, 2026

    URGELL INGLADA, MODEST

    Est: -

    (1839-1919). "Atardecer". Óleo sobre lienzo, firmado. Medidas : 60 x 118 cm.

    Bonanova Subastas
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.
    May. 19, 2026

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.

    Est: €1,200 - €1,300

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 20 x 31 cm; 41 x 54 cm (frame). Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a realist. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work would focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often featuring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He took part in all the editions of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in Madrid, from 1864 until a year before his death, and was awarded the second medal in 1876 and 1892. He also sent his paintings to the exhibitions of Barcelona, as well as to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the International Exhibitions of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1892 he was awarded in all the contests in which he participated, among them the one in Brussels, in which he was the only Spanish winner. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are expressed in his album "Catalunya" (1905), made up of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like windows open to the southern sensuality. His paintings, on the contrary, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and time and again recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia to which, years later, the poet Salvador Espriu would also be sensitive. His language rejects any fanciful or picturesque theme, picking up current issues without trying to ennoble or idealize them, but seeking to provoke moods in the viewer through twilight lights that dissolve, for brief moments, in harmony of reds, or his desolate cemeteries and severe seascapes, naked and stripped. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Twilight landscape". Oil on canvas, glued to board. Signed.
    Mar. 18, 2026

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Twilight landscape". Oil on canvas, glued to board. Signed.

    Est: €3,000 - €3,500

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Twilight landscape". Oil on canvas, glued to board. Signed. Measurements: 57 x 103 cm; 69 x 120 cm (frame). This landscape constitutes an especially representative example of the mature language of Modest Urgell, one of the great poets of the Catalan landscape of the end of the 19th century. Far from descriptive landscape painting, Urgell constructed a deeply atmospheric work, where nature becomes an emotional and symbolic setting. In this composition, the artist places the viewer before a silent and almost uninhabited territory, dominated by a low, leaden sky that occupies a large part of the pictorial surface. The twilight -a central theme in his work- envelops the landscape in a suspended gloom, reinforcing the sensation of time standing still, so characteristic of Urgell. The humble architecture in ruins and the bare trees emerge as signs of abandonment and contemplation, recurring elements in his iconography. Works like this one reflect the painter's constant search to capture not so much a specific place as a state of mind: melancholy, solitude and recollection. Modest Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Girona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

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  • MODEST URGELL. Rural view.
    Mar. 12, 2026

    MODEST URGELL. Rural view.

    Est: €3,500 - €4,000

    Oil on canvas Signed 59x118 cm.

    Balclis
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner.
    Feb. 19, 2026

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner.

    Est: €6,500 - €7,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 81 x 151 cm; 101 x 172 cm (frame). This painting is fully inscribed in the poetic and aesthetic universe characteristic of Modest Urgell. The work represents a serene and solitary landscape, presided by a stone hermitage with a small tower and wooden gate, located in the middle of a dark green and emerald field, surrounded by cypresses and leafy vegetation. On the dirt road leading to the temple a solitary figure advances, a villager who goes to the evening prayer at the sound of the prayer bell. The twilight sky, with its wide canopy and iridescent lights, envelops the scene in an atmosphere of silence and transcendence. That evening light, with its violet and bluish-gray reflections, gives the whole a meditative and almost mystical tone, so typical of Urgell's painting. The solitude of the human figure in front of the immensity of the landscape reinforces the feeling of transience and the idea of man before the mystery of the eternal. This composition reflects the essential features of his mature style: sober but refined palette, balanced composition, and a lyrical sense of landscape that transcends mere naturalistic description. Urgell was a painter of silence, twilight and spaces where nature and faith merge. It should be noted that there is a painting with a very similar theme and composition, also titled Toque de oración (Touch of Prayer), preserved in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), which confirms the importance and recurrence of this motif in his production. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like open windows to the southern sensuality. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Girona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODESTO URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839 / 1919) "Boats on the shore"
    Jan. 22, 2026

    MODESTO URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839 / 1919) "Boats on the shore"

    Est: €375 - €500

    Inks on paper Signed in the lower right corner Measurements: 7 x 20.5 cm

    Ansorena
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Houses" and "House with vegetation". Pair of oils on canvas. Signed. Both are numbered by the Service of Artistic Recovery of the Civil War.
    Jan. 14, 2026

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Houses" and "House with vegetation". Pair of oils on canvas. Signed. Both are numbered by the Service of Artistic Recovery of the Civil War.

    Est: €900 - €1,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Houses" and "House with vegetation". Pair of oils on canvas. Signed. Both are numbered by the Service of Artistic Recovery of the Civil War. Measurements: 13 x 19 cm. and 15 x 24 cm.; 19 x 27 cm. and 33 x 28 cm (frames). Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like open windows to the southern sensuality. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Girona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village street". Oil on panel. Without signature.
    Jan. 14, 2026

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village street". Oil on panel. Without signature.

    Est: €800 - €1,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village street". Oil on panel. Without signature. Measurements: 26 x 20 cm; 33 x 28 cm (frame). Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became attached to realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like open windows to the southern sensuality. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Girona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.
    Jan. 14, 2026

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.

    Est: €5,000 - €6,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 95 x 185 cm; 105 x 195 cm (frame). The canvas has craquelure. This painting is fully inscribed in the poetic and aesthetic universe characteristic of Modest Urgell. The work represents a serene and solitary landscape, presided by a stone hermitage with a small tower and wooden gate, located in the middle of a dark green and emerald field, surrounded by cypresses and lush vegetation. On the dirt road leading to the temple a solitary figure advances, a villager who goes to the evening prayer at the sound of the prayer bell. The twilight sky, with its wide canopy and iridescent lights, envelops the scene in an atmosphere of silence and transcendence. That evening light, with its violet and bluish-gray reflections, gives the whole a meditative and almost mystical tone, so typical of Urgell's painting. The solitude of the human figure in front of the immensity of the landscape reinforces the feeling of transience and the idea of man before the mystery of the eternal. This composition reflects the essential features of his mature style: sober but refined palette, balanced composition, and a lyrical sense of landscape that transcends mere naturalistic description. Urgell was a painter of silence, twilight and spaces where nature and faith merge. It should be noted that there is a painting with a very similar theme and composition, also titled Toque de oración (Touch of Prayer), preserved in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), which confirms the importance and recurrence of this motif in his production. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like open windows to the southern sensuality. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Girona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Boats on the beach". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner.
    Dec. 17, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Boats on the beach". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner.

    Est: €2,500 - €3,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Boats on the beach". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 59 x 82 cm; 74 x 98 cm (frame). Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became attached to realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He took part in all the editions of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in Madrid, from 1864 until a year before his death, and was awarded the second medal in 1876 and 1892. He also sent his paintings to the exhibitions of Barcelona, as well as to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the International Exhibitions of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1892 he was awarded in all the contests in which he participated, among them the one in Brussels, in which he was the only Spanish winner. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are captured in his album "Catalunya" (1905), made up of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromatism, like windows open to the southern sensuality. His paintings, on the contrary, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and time and again recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia to which, years later, the poet Salvador Espriu would also be sensitive. His language rejects any fanciful or picturesque theme, picking up current issues without trying to ennoble or idealize them, but seeking to provoke moods in the viewer through twilight lights that dissolve, for brief moments, in harmony of reds, or his desolate cemeteries and severe seascapes, naked and stripped. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL. Landscape with two rainbows.
    Dec. 11, 2025

    MODEST URGELL. Landscape with two rainbows.

    Est: €7,500 - €8,000

    Oil on canvas Signed 95x185 cm.

    Balclis
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village street". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.
    Nov. 19, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village street". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.

    Est: €1,800 - €2,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village street". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 34 x 21 cm; 47 x 34 cm (frame). This painting by Modest Urgell shows a lonely street of a small town, represented with the usual mixture of sober realism and melancholic lyricism that defines the artist's work. The composition is organized in depth, with a cobblestone street of pebbles flanked by whitewashed houses with irregular walls and reddish roofs. The narrowness of the road and the shadows that envelop the foreground give the scene an intimate and silent tone. The intense blue sky contrasts with the gloom of the street. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like open windows to the southern sensuality. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Girona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

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  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Attached certificate of Milagros Torres.
    Nov. 19, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Attached certificate of Milagros Torres.

    Est: €6,000 - €7,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Touch of prayer". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Attached certificate of Milagros Torres. Measurements: 84 x 147 cm; 112 x 175 cm (frame). This painting is fully inscribed in the poetic and aesthetic universe characteristic of Modest Urgell. The work represents a serene and solitary landscape, presided over by a stone hermitage with a small tower and wooden gate, located in the middle of a dark green and emerald field, surrounded by cypresses and lush vegetation. On the dirt road leading to the temple a solitary figure advances, a villager who goes to the evening prayer at the sound of the prayer bell. The twilight sky, with its wide canopy and iridescent lights, envelops the scene in an atmosphere of silence and transcendence. That evening light, with its violet and bluish-gray reflections, gives the whole a meditative and almost mystical tone, so typical of Urgell's painting. The solitude of the human figure in front of the immensity of the landscape reinforces the feeling of transience and the idea of man before the mystery of the eternal. This composition reflects the essential features of his mature style: sober but refined palette, balanced composition, and a lyrical sense of landscape that transcends mere naturalistic description. Urgell was a painter of silence, twilight and spaces where nature and faith merge. It should be noted that there is a painting with a very similar theme and composition, also titled Toque de oración (Touch of Prayer), preserved in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), which confirms the importance and recurrence of this motif in his production. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like open windows to the southern sensuality. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Girona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions. Attached is a certificate from Milagros Torres.

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  • Modesto Urgell Y Inglada Oil on Canvas "Landscape"
    Oct. 18, 2025

    Modesto Urgell Y Inglada Oil on Canvas "Landscape"

    Est: $100 - $1,000

    Modesto Urgell Y Inglada, Spanish (1839 - 1919) Oil on canvas "Landscape". Signed lower right. Small patch to verso, minor paint loss and craquelure, otherwise in good condition. Measures 13" x 29-1/4". frame measures 24-1/4" x 40-5/8". LA/B13/SH:16A

    Joshua Kodner
  • ATTRIBUTED TO MODEST URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839) / (1919) “Prayer touch”
    Oct. 01, 2025

    ATTRIBUTED TO MODEST URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839) / (1919) “Prayer touch”

    Est: €3,000 - €4,000

    Oil on canvas Label on the back with no. 68, title and indication of the authorship Measurements: Measurements: 78 x 140 cm

    Ansorena
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Boats on the beach". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner.
    Sep. 09, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Boats on the beach". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner.

    Est: €2,500 - €3,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Boats on the beach". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 59 x 82 cm; 74 x 98 cm (frame). Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became attached to realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He took part in all the editions of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in Madrid, from 1864 until a year before his death, and was awarded the second medal in 1876 and 1892. He also sent his paintings to the exhibitions of Barcelona, as well as to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the International Exhibitions of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1892 he was awarded in all the contests in which he participated, among them the one in Brussels, in which he was the only Spanish winner. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are captured in his album "Catalunya" (1905), made up of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromatism, like windows open to the southern sensuality. His paintings, on the contrary, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and time and again recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia to which, years later, the poet Salvador Espriu would also be sensitive. His language rejects any fanciful or picturesque theme, picking up current issues without trying to ennoble or idealize them, but seeking to provoke moods in the viewer through twilight lights that dissolve, for brief moments, in harmony of reds, or his desolate cemeteries and severe seascapes, naked and stripped. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). ‘Male figure with an umbrella’.
    Jun. 19, 2025

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). ‘Male figure with an umbrella’.

    Est: €1,500 - €2,500

    Oil on canvas stuck to board. Signed. 26.5 x 19 cm; 40 x 32.5 cm (frame).

    Subarna Subastas
  • MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). ‘Landscape with a procession’.
    Jun. 19, 2025

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). ‘Landscape with a procession’.

    Est: €4,000 - €7,000

    Oil on canvas. Signed. It has a small tear on the canvas, as well as visible restorations on the reverse and interventions on the paint layer. 60 x 100 cm; 76 x 118 cm (frame).

    Subarna Subastas
  • ATTRIBUTED TO MODEST URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839) / (1919) “Prayer touch”
    Jun. 18, 2025

    ATTRIBUTED TO MODEST URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839) / (1919) “Prayer touch”

    Est: €4,500 - €6,000

    Oil on canvas Label on the back with no. 68, title and indication of the authorship Measurements: 78 x 140 cm

    Ansorena
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with hermitage at sunset". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Frame with slight damage.
    Jun. 17, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with hermitage at sunset". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Frame with slight damage.

    Est: €8,000 - €10,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with hermitage at sunset". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Frame with slight damage. Measurements: 94 x 186 cm; 122 x 211 cm (frame). Of great evocative, melancholic and somber power, this canvas is an indisputable example of the production of Modest Urgell, who always preferred sunsets and desolate landscapes. His work, as we see here, responds to a language halfway between romantic landscape painting and impressionism. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work would focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often featuring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He took part in all the editions of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in Madrid, from 1864 until a year before his death, and was awarded the second medal in 1876 and 1892. He also sent his paintings to the exhibitions of Barcelona, as well as to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the International Exhibitions of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1892 he was awarded in all the contests in which he participated, among them the one in Brussels, in which he was the only Spanish winner. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are expressed in his album "Catalunya" (1905), made up of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like windows open to the southern sensuality. His paintings, on the contrary, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and time and again recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia to which, years later, the poet Salvador Espriu would also be sensitive. His language rejects any fanciful or picturesque theme, picking up current issues without trying to ennoble or idealize them, but seeking to provoke moods in the viewer through twilight lights that dissolve, for brief moments, in harmony of reds, or his desolate cemeteries and severe seascapes, naked and stripped. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL I INGLADA, "Personajes en la playa"
    Jun. 05, 2025

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA, "Personajes en la playa"

    Est: -

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA, "Personajes en la playa"

    Arte Subastas Bilbao
  • MODEST URGELL. Landscape.
    May. 22, 2025

    MODEST URGELL. Landscape.

    Est: €2,000 - €2,300

    Oil on canvas. Signed. 35x52 cm.

    Balclis
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.
    May. 14, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.

    Est: €3,500 - €4,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 110 x 72 cm; 125 x 90 cm (frame). Modest Urgell privileged landscape formats like the one that concerns us, to overturn in wide skies and villages impregnated with sunset his masterful plastic gifts. The fading sun fades at the edges, but before disappearing completely, it tints the sky with lavender. A village street welcomes black silhouettes of old people returning home. A haystack looms at the side of the road. Urgell's style was unclassifiable, as we see in this evocative sunset, halfway between romantic and impressionist landscape painting. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work would focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often featuring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He took part in all the editions of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in Madrid, from 1864 until a year before his death, and was awarded the second medal in 1876 and 1892. He also sent his paintings to the exhibitions of Barcelona, as well as to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the International Exhibitions of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1892 he was awarded in all the contests in which he participated, among them the one in Brussels, in which he was the only Spanish winner. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are expressed in his album "Catalunya" (1905), made up of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromatism, like windows open to the southern sensuality. His paintings, on the contrary, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and time and again recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia to which, years later, the poet Salvador Espriu would also be sensitive. His language rejects any fanciful or picturesque theme, picking up current issues without trying to ennoble or idealize them, but seeking to provoke moods in the viewer through twilight lights that dissolve, for brief moments, in harmony of reds, or his desolate cemeteries and severe seascapes, naked and stripped. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower corner. Presents losses in the pictorial layer. The frame is damaged. Measurements: 97 x 189 cm; 110 x 200 cm (frame).
    May. 14, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower corner. Presents losses in the pictorial layer. The frame is damaged. Measurements: 97 x 189 cm; 110 x 200 cm (frame).

    Est: €8,000 - €9,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower corner. Presents losses in the pictorial layer. The frame is damaged. Measurements: 97 x 189 cm; 110 x 200 cm (frame). Modest Urgell privileged landscape formats like the one that occupies us, to overturn in wide skies and villages impregnated with sunset his masterful plastic gifts. The fading sun fades at the edges, but before disappearing completely, it tints the sky with lavender. A village street welcomes black silhouettes of old people returning home. A haystack looms at the side of the road. Urgell's style was unclassifiable, as we see in this evocative sunset, halfway between romantic and impressionist landscape painting. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a follower of realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work would focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often featuring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He took part in all the editions of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in Madrid, from 1864 until a year before his death, and was awarded the second medal in 1876 and 1892. He also sent his paintings to the exhibitions of Barcelona, as well as to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the International Exhibitions of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1892 he was awarded in all the contests in which he participated, among them the one in Brussels, in which he was the only Spanish winner. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are captured in his album "Catalunya" (1905), made up of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromatism, like windows open to the southern sensuality. His paintings, on the contrary, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and time and again recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia to which, years later, the poet Salvador Espriu would also be sensitive. His language rejects any fanciful or picturesque theme, picking up current issues without trying to ennoble or idealize them, but seeking to provoke moods in the viewer through twilight lights that dissolve, for brief moments, in harmony of reds, or his desolate cemeteries and severe seascapes, naked and stripped. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODESTO URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839 / 1919) "Village Street"
    May. 12, 2025

    MODESTO URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839 / 1919) "Village Street"

    Est: €5,250 - €7,000

    Oil on canvas Signed in the lower right corner Measurements: 81.5 x 52 cm

    Ansorena
  • Modesto Urgell Y Inglada Oil on Canvas "Landscape"
    Apr. 19, 2025

    Modesto Urgell Y Inglada Oil on Canvas "Landscape"

    Est: $2,000 - $3,000

    Modesto Urgell Y Inglada, Spanish (1839 - 1919) Oil on canvas "Landscape". Signed lower right. Small patch to verso and minor paintloss, craquelure. Measures 13" x 29-1/4". frame measures 24-1/4" x 40-5/8". LA/B13/SH:16A

    Joshua Kodner
  • MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). Landscape sketch.
    Apr. 10, 2025

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). Landscape sketch.

    Est: €100 - €150

    Charcoal and crayons on paper. Signed. 12 x 20.5 cm; 27.5 x 36.5 cm (frame).

    Subarna Subastas
  • MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). "Landscape".
    Apr. 10, 2025

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). "Landscape".

    Est: €15,000 - €25,000

    Oil on canvas. Signed. 95 x 184 cm; 110 x 200 cm (frame).

    Subarna Subastas
  • MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). "Cemetery".
    Apr. 10, 2025

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). "Cemetery".

    Est: €350 - €500

    Oil on canvas stuck to cardboard. Signed. 14 x 26.5 cm; 28.5 x 40 cm (frame). 

    Subarna Subastas
  • MODEST URGELL. PAISAJE CON FIGURA Y PAISAJE. PAREJA DE ÓLEOS SOBRE PALETAS DE PINTOR.
    Mar. 25, 2025

    MODEST URGELL. PAISAJE CON FIGURA Y PAISAJE. PAREJA DE ÓLEOS SOBRE PALETAS DE PINTOR.

    Est: €600 - €800

    Modest Urgell (Barcelona, 1839-1919) Paisaje con figura y Paisaje. Pareja de óleos sobre paletas de pintor. Firmados. 23 x 33 cm. cada una.

    Aletheia Subastas
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower corner. The frame is damaged.
    Mar. 19, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower corner. The frame is damaged.

    Est: €8,000 - €9,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with village". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower corner. The frame is damaged. Measurements: 97 x 189 cm; 110 x 200 cm (frame). Modest Urgell privileged landscape formats like the one that occupies us, to overturn in wide skies and villages impregnated with sunset his masterful plastic gifts. The fading sun fades at the edges, but before disappearing completely, it tints the sky with lavender. A village street welcomes black silhouettes of old people returning home. A haystack looms at the side of the road. Urgell's style was unclassifiable, as we see in this evocative sunset, halfway between romantic and impressionist landscape painting. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became attached to realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work would focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often featuring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He took part in all the editions of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in Madrid, from 1864 until a year before his death, and was awarded the second medal in 1876 and 1892. He also sent his paintings to the exhibitions of Barcelona, as well as to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the International Exhibitions of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1892 he was awarded in all the contests in which he participated, among them the one in Brussels, in which he was the only Spanish winner. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are captured in his album "Catalunya" (1905), made up of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromatism, like windows open to the southern sensuality. His paintings, on the contrary, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and time and again recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia to which, years later, the poet Salvador Espriu would also be sensitive. His language rejects any fanciful or picturesque theme, picking up current issues without trying to ennoble or idealize them, but seeking to provoke moods in the viewer through twilight lights that dissolve, for brief moments, in harmony of reds, or his desolate cemeteries and severe seascapes, naked and stripped. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODESTO URGELL (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919), Paisaje fluvial ,
    Mar. 18, 2025

    MODESTO URGELL (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919), Paisaje fluvial ,

    Est: -

    MODESTO URGELL (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919) "Fluvial landscape ". Oil on canvas Signed Measurements: 60 x 102 cm.

    Magna Art Auctions
  • MODEST URGELL. Landscape with hens.
    Mar. 13, 2025

    MODEST URGELL. Landscape with hens.

    Est: €800 - €900

    Oil on wood Signed 36.5x21.5 cm.

    Balclis
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with church". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.
    Feb. 19, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with church". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.

    Est: €3,500 - €4,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Landscape with church". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 34,5 x 52 cm; 61 x 79,5 cm (frame). In this canvas Modest Urgell offers us a landscape wrapped in a mist of golden and pink tints, achieving an image of great lyricism, halfway between the dreamlike and the real landscape, naturalistic in the capture of the light and especially successful in the atmospheric. It is therefore a landscape of great evocative power, melancholic and almost empty, very typical of Urgell's personal sensibility, whose work is halfway between romantic and impressionist landscape painting. Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family's prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became attached to realism. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work will focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often starring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromatism, like open windows to the southern sensuality. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Girona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village corner with figures". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.
    Feb. 19, 2025

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village corner with figures". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner.

    Est: €1,500 - €2,000

    MODEST URGELL INGLADA (Barcelona, 1839 - 1919). "Village corner with figures". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 31 x 21 cm; 41 x 31 cm (frame). Modest Urgell began his career as a theatrical actor, but the family prohibition to follow that path led him to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina, and later spent some time in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and became a realist. During the sixties, his works were rejected in the official exhibitions of Madrid and Barcelona. In 1870 he moved to Olot, where he became acquainted with Joaquín Vayreda, creator of the local landscape school. From then on, Urgell decided to devote himself fully to landscape painting. His work would focus on solitary natures and seascapes, often featuring hermitages and cemeteries, marked by a twilight, desolate and mysterious atmosphere. From 1896 he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, being appointed academician in 1902. He was also founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, as well as the Artistic and Archaeological Museum of Girona. He took part in all the editions of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in Madrid, from 1864 until a year before his death, and was awarded the second medal in 1876 and 1892. He also sent his paintings to the exhibitions of Barcelona, as well as to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and the International Exhibitions of Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1892 he was awarded in all the contests in which he participated, among them the one in Brussels, in which he was the only Spanish winner. He also devoted himself to literature, with a special interest in theater. The sum of his two passions, art and literature, are expressed in his album "Catalunya" (1905), made up of more than one hundred drawings accompanied by texts written by himself. His landscapes have an atmosphere, a color and themes that deny the stereotype of the Mediterranean landscape, based on warm and friendly natures, of brilliant chromaticism, like windows open to the southern sensuality. His paintings, on the contrary, speak of melancholy and loneliness, and time and again recreate a desolate and sad Catalonia to which, years later, the poet Salvador Espriu would also be sensitive. His language rejects any fanciful or picturesque theme, picking up current issues without trying to ennoble or idealize them, but seeking to provoke moods in the viewer through twilight lights that dissolve, for brief moments, in harmony of reds, or his desolate cemeteries and severe seascapes, naked and stripped. Urgell is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, the Víctor Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Art Funds of the Caixa Sabadell and the Caixa d'Estalvis de Terrassa, the Dalí Museum in Figueras and the Provincial Museums of Gerona, Palma de Mallorca and Lugo, among many other centers and institutions.

    Setdart Auction House
  • MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). ‘Landscape with a procession’.
    Feb. 13, 2025

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). ‘Landscape with a procession’.

    Est: €5,000 - €7,000

    Oil on canvas. Signed. It has a small tear on the canvas, as well as visible restorations on the reverse and interventions on the paint layer. 60 x 100 cm; 76 x 118 cm (frame).

    Subarna Subastas
  • MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). 'Landscape'.
    Feb. 13, 2025

    MODEST URGELL I INGLADA (1839-1919). 'Landscape'.

    Est: €700 - €1,200

    Oil on canvas. Signed. 25 x 44.5 cm; 39 x 57.5 cm (frame).

    Subarna Subastas
  • MODESTO URGELL - Landscape at sunset
    Feb. 11, 2025

    MODESTO URGELL - Landscape at sunset

    Est: -

    MODESTO URGELL Barcelona 1839 - 1919 Landscape at sunset Oil on canvas Signed Measurements 96 x 185 cm

    Subastas Segre
  • Modesto Urgell. Alley with a hen
    Jan. 29, 2025

    Modesto Urgell. Alley with a hen

    Est: -

    Drawing on paper. Signed in the lower right corner.

    Duran Arte y Subastas
  • Modesto Urgell. Landscape
    Jan. 29, 2025

    Modesto Urgell. Landscape

    Est: -

    Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Provenance: - Private collection.

    Duran Arte y Subastas
  • MODESTO URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839 / 1919) "Landscape"
    Jan. 22, 2025

    MODESTO URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839 / 1919) "Landscape"

    Est: €4,200 - €5,600

    Oil on canvas Signed in the lower right corner. On the back on the frame, label of the Sala Parés, Barcelona. Provenance: - Private collection Madrid - Private collection Barcelona Exhibitions: -Sala Parés, Barcelona. 6/2/1991 Measurements: 59 x 117 cm

    Ansorena
  • MODEST URGELL. Beach.
    Dec. 18, 2024

    MODEST URGELL. Beach.

    Est: €750 - €800

    Oil on wood Signed and dedicated 26x45 cm.

    Balclis
  • MODEST URGELL. PAISAJE CON FIGURA.
    Dec. 17, 2024

    MODEST URGELL. PAISAJE CON FIGURA.

    Est: €5,000 - €6,000

    Modest Urgell (Barcelona, 1839-1919) Paisaje con figura. Óleo sobre lienzo. Firmado. 122 x 179 cm.

    Aletheia Subastas
  • MODESTO URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839 / 1919) "Alley"
    Dec. 10, 2024

    MODESTO URGELL E INGLADA Barcelona (1839 / 1919) "Alley"

    Est: €2,250 - €3,000

    Oil on canvas glued to board Signed in the lower right corner Measurements: 33.5 x 20.5 cm

    Ansorena
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