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Works :
In
Barcelona:
Vase
with children (Ciutadella
Park in
Barcelona 1882)
Marià Fortuny portrait (1884)
Eduardo Rosales portrait (1884)
Cervantes portrait (1885)
Barcelona rep les nacions
(Barcelona welcome the
nations - Frieze
on Triumph Arch 1887)
Roger de
Llúria statue (Lluís
Companys Promenade in Barcelona 1888)
Violinist
(1890)
Equestrian statue of Christine of
Habsburg
(MNAC Catalonian
National Art
Museum 1891)
The Justice
(Justice Palace)
Antoni Viladomat i Manalt
bust
(Catalonian
Parliament in Barcelona 1915)
Manuel Tremulles bust (Catalonian
Parliament in Barcelona 1915)
Young woman bust (Barcelona
City
hall
1st floor)
In Sitges:
El
Greco Monument
Doctor Robert Monument
In Barcelona:
Bonaplata Pantheon
(Southwest
Cemetery 1886)
Cazes-Clavell
Pantheon
(Southwest Cemetery 1897 -
in
collaboration with Fuxà)
Godó Pantheon (Southwest
Cemetery 1898)
Collaso Pantheon (Southwest
Cemetery 1901)
Gener Pantheon
(Southwest
Cemetery 1904)
Casa
Ortembach Pantheon
(Southwest
Cemetery 1907)
In Sitges:
A.
Serra Ferrer Pantheon
(Cemetery 1902)
M. Robert Aldufeu Pantheon
(Cemetery
1902)
Life:
Born in Barcelona in 1850.
Sculptor trained in the School of Llotja of Barcelona with the brothers Venanci
and Agapit Vallmitjana, in the
atelier of Rosend Nobas, in which he found Manuel Fuxà and in Paris (1873-76), in the
atelier of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
During this stay in Paris in 1973, he found again Fuxà with whom
he developed a deep friendship.
Reynés is a sculptor that lived on full the modernist epoch, but his sculpture is classified
inside the naturalistic realism with tendency to decorativism - by way of example we can observe a fine work that reflects a delicate sensibility as is the source in form of
vase with children and flowers that dates of
his first times as sculptor (1882) and is found in the Ciutadella Park of Barcelona and that, in spite of belonging to the youth of the sculptor, is considered as one of its better
sculptural pieces -.
Although in his style, some light but characteristic aspects of the modernism
(Catalan Art Nouveau) are declared. That influences where inevitable
because the chronological convergence, nevertheless it is more correct to classify
his work, as we say before, as representative of an eclectic naturalistic
realism.
Thus, in spite of the fact that some of his works are set apart of his normal
works, as the female bust that is found in the City Hall of Barcelona, the bust of Cervantes (1885) and the equestrian statue of the queen
regent Maria Cristina of Hapsburg (1891) that is found in the Modern Museum of Art of
Barcelona, his style is characterized more by an emphatic and virtuous
treatment of the sculpture, reflecting a flavor still deep-rooted in the epoch and betrays the influence of
his Parisian formation.
Besides the already cited source, excel in Barcelona the relief "Barcelona rep
les nacions" (Barcelona welcome the nations), sculptural frieze on the Arch of Triumph of Barcelona (1887)
together with another frieze of the first still academic period of Llimona in the opposite part of the
arch - Main gate of the Universal Exhibition of 1888 -, giving to the
monument a content the monument by itself lacks.
Reynés carried out also notable monuments representing illustrious personages as the
dedicated to El Greco and Doctor Robert in
Sitges and to Roger de
Llúria in Barcelona.
In addition to his work as sculptor in which he obtained a great prestige, Reynés also was dedicated to the decoration of
interiors.
Josep Reynés died in Barcelona in the year 1926.
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| Vase with children | Doctor Robert | El Greco | Roger de LLúria | The Justice |
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| Frieze on the upper
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| Antoni Serra Ferrer Pantheon (1902) Main statue and General view | M. Robert Aldufeu Pantheon (1902) | |
