Minneapolis Institute of Art

Patio in Sitges

Santiago Rusiñol

Date

c. 1892–94

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Sitges, a small fishing town outside Barcelona, became a center of Spanish modernism with the arrival of a group of artists in the 1890s. At the center of that group was the painter Rusiñol, who established a studio there and organized a series of festes modernistas, festivals that brought together theater performers, poets, literary figures, and artists. He painted this view of a patio on one of his earliest trips to Sitges, capturing the bright Mediterranean sun and the stillness of a quiet afternoon with the warm palette and spontaneous brushwork that would become characteristic of his work after 1890. Spain, Europe

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