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An allegoric draw by Riquer
Other pursuits:
Drawing
List of works:
-Caplletra A (per "Maria" de J.
Isaacs - 1883) - Initial letter A (for "Maria" of J. Isaacs) - (1883)
-El camí de la muntanya (per a "Maria" de J. Isaacs) - The
mountain path (for "Maria of J.Isaacs) - (1883)
-Caplletra Q - Initial letter Q - (1889)
-Bosc - Wood - (1892)
-Gerro per realitzar en majòlica - Vase to be manufactured in ceramics - (1892)
-La casa pairal de Bassols
- El conillet -The Bassols house - (1894)
-Petita historia trista - Little sad history - (1896)
-Orla amb motius florals i animals - Border with floral and animal themes - (1895)
-Motius florals (4) (per "Crisantemes" - Floral themes ($) (for "Crisantemes")
- 1897/98)
-Paisatge nocturn amb lluna (per a "Crisantemes") - Nocturne
landscape with moon (for Crisantemes)
-"La il·lustració llevantina" (1900)
-Projecte per al Institut Industrial de Terrassa
- Project for the Terrassa Industrial Institute - (1901)
-Editorial brand of the review l'Avenç - (1902)
-Segell per a l'Exposició d'Art antic (1902)
-Estudi d’ocells - Birds study - (1903)
-Esbossos - Sketches - (1905)
-Josefina de Riquer i Ynglada (1909)
-Auto caricature: "Finis grazias voviscu"
-Casa Garcia Viver (Poster sketch)
-Clar de bosc - Clearing -
-Detall d’un arbre - Detail of a tree -
-Dibuixos
per estampació tèxtil - Drawings for textile industrial printing -
-Dues nimfes -Two Nymphs -
-Flors - Flowers -
-La sembradora - The sow woman -
-La vida a Bassols - The life at Bassols -
-La violinista - The violinist -
-Maternitat Maternity -
-Original per al segell de "Solidaritat Catalana" - Original
sketch for the seal of "Solidaritat Catalana" -
-Santa Maria - The virgin Mary -
-Set
vinyetes amb sol ocell i caragol - Seven vignettes with sun. bird and snail
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-Tres dones - Three women -
-Tres esbossos per peces de joier - Three sketches for jeweller pieces -
-Verge amb nen i Guifré el Pilós - Virgin Mary with
the child Jesus and Guifré el Pilós with the Catalonian four bars.
-Vetllades musicals selectes Perelló i Cia. - Musical soirées Perelló i Cia.
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-"Vita sine literis morts est"
Standards
List of works:
-Standard of "Unió catalanista" (Museu de Montserrat)
-Standard of l'Orfeó Català (Orfeó Català)
-Standard of Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc (Centre Artístic de Sant Lluc)
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Engravings
List of works:
-Figures femenines - Female
figures - (MNAC)
-Dona asseguda al costat de l’aigua - Woman seated close to the water - (MNAC)
-Dona amb ocell - Woman with bird - (MNAC)
-Dona amb rosa - Woman with rose -
-Processó de Setmana Santa - Easter procession - (MNAC)
-Figura amb mantó - Figure with shawl - (MNAC)
-"Maja" amb guitarra - "Maja" with guitar -(MNAC)
-Preparació d'ex-libris - Ex-libris sketch
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-Poema - Poem -
-Diploma pel Primer Concurs d'Arts Industrials i Manifestació
Artística - Diploma for the first Industrial Art Competition and Artistic
Demonstration -
Illustrations
List of works:
-Yearbook
annual of "La Il·lustració
Catalana"
(1880)
-Portraits of dignitaries of "Jocs Florals" (1880)
-"Arte y Letras" Ink drawings (1882-1883)
-"Maria" de J. Isaacs (1882)
-"Los estudiants de Tolosa" (1886)
-"Para ellas" by Sánchez de
Cantos Escobar (1896)
-"Rinconete y Cortadillo" by M. de Cervantes (1896)
-"Antología Americana" (1897)
-"El Ídolo" by E. García Ladevese (1897)
-"La ciencia Moderna" byJulio Broutá (1897)
-"La perfecta casada" by Fray Luís de León (1898)
-"Crisantemes" (1899)
Printed matters
Types:
-Dance cards
-Catalogues of expositions
-Invoices and commercial letters
-Greetings cards
-Invitations
-Commercial brands and labels
-Menus
-Artistic Postcards
-Programmes
-In memoriam and first communion cards
-Visit cards
-Financial titles, shares
Jewelry
Some works:
-Messalina (enamel, metal and precious stones of 6 cm. diam.)
-Alliance coup (for Masriera house 1902)
Playing cards Drawings:
-Pack of 48
Spanish cards for Guarro cny.
-Other drawings for the companies Guarro and Comas
Tapestries
List of works:
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Industrial textile design stamping:
The
Museum of Printing in Premià de Mar (Maresme) has discovered seven
textile stamping designs by Riquer. These designs come from the Ponsa
Hermanos factory, which would seem to confirm that Riquer also worked
for industry. Artistically, two strains appear: one naturalist and the
other completely modernist, in which Riquer reveals himself at his most
modern and most connected to international artistic movements. The third
design (below) is the most spectacular and surprising; it reveals an
abstract instinct not then current in Art Nouveau, except in the works
of
Gaudí and Jujol.
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Playing
cards:
Riquer designed a plethora of packs of playing cards for various
companies, such as Guarro, Comas, and others.
Many examples are now on display in the Fournier Company Museum in
Vitoria-Gasteiz.
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Playing cards of a Spanish
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Magazine and book illustrations and
covers:
According to Alexandre Cirici i Pellicer, Riquer considered
illustrated books one of the jewels of the Art Nouveau era - whether
he also wrote them himself or merely illustrated other author's
works.
Riquer, like all the great Art Nouveau artists, did not consider
illustrations to be simple graphic representations of text, but
rather to be profound fusions of text and image that intensified the
expression and suggestive nature of idea and thought.
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Illustrations for the title
pages and other pages of various publications
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Three title pages of the art
review "Luz"
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Work in wood:
Alexandre
de Riquer also achieved enormous prestige with his artistic wood creations.
Though he realized only a limited number of these projects, they were of a
high technical and artistic quality.
In 1892, he founded a carpentry and decoration studio with his cousin, Manel
de Riquer, on carrer Pau Claris, 38 in Barcelona.
Two years later, after a trip to London where he became acquainted with
modern English decorative arts (the Arts and Crafts Movement), he fell under
the influence of the pre-Raphaelites.
He then moved to carrer Freneria, where he established a house-workshop that
operated until 1917. At this workshop, he trained several future decorative
arts professionals, often without any monetary compensation.
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Some examples of works in
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Flags and tapestries:
Another
of Alexandre de Riquer’s many artistic pursuits was the
design of flags,
then much en vogue in Catalonia, when they were then (and are still even
today) symbols of organizations such as political parties, music societies,
cultural institutions, literary circles, and so forth. Within the field of
textile decoration, Riquer also developed an active interest in
tapestries.
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Tapestry: The fishing |
Tapestry: The hunting |
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Jewelry:
Riquer also dedicated himself to
jewelry, designing pieces for the Masriera
brothers and other jewelers in Barcelona and producing a number of
high-quality works prized not only for the materials used, but also for
their exquisite design. Among them are the Messalina medallion (left) and a
chalice (right).
 Wrought iron:
There is no evidence that Riquer
actually produced wrought iron pieces, but
it is certain that he was an avid collector, particularly of objects from
rural life.
Stained glass:
At left is the window Riquer designed for the Cercle del Liceu, entitled
“Poetry”.
He also had an important collection of antique glass works that is now on
display at the
Cau Ferrat Museum in Sitges.
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