Mir surname

Selected Group Exhibitions

Joaquim Mir y Trinxet was a Spanish 19th Century painter who was born in 1873. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Singer Laren have featured Joaquim Mir y Trinxet's work in the past.Joaquim Mir y Trinxet's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 106 USD to 383,924 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 383,924 USD for Puerto de Tarragona (Port of Tarragona), sold at Christie's London in 2007. In the past 12 months, their artworks have averaged 1,573 USD.Joaquim Mir y Trinxet has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Fine Art Connoisseur and The Arts Desk. The most recent article is Colnaghi Presents New Exhibition Dedicated to Spanish Modernists Working in Belle Époque Paris written for ArtDaily in October 2022. The artist died in 1940.

Artist's alternative names: Joaquim Mir, Joaquín Mir, Joaquin Mir Trinxet

Joaquin Mir Trinxet

Spanish artist (1873–1940)

Joaquin Mir Trinxet

Joaquin Mir Trinxet (1915)

Born(1873-01-06)6 January 1873

Barcelona, Spain

Died8 April 1940(1940-04-08) (aged 67)
NationalitySpanish
Known forPainting, drawing
MovementModernisme

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mir and the second or maternal family name is Trinxet.

Joaquin Mir Trinxet or Joaquin Mir y Trinxet[1] (Catalan: Joaquim Mir i Trinxet) (Barcelona 6 January 1873 – 8 April 1940) was a Catalan artist known for his use of color in his paintings. He lived through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona. His paintings helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.

Barcelona and Paris

Mir Trinxet was born in Barcelona to a well-off Catalan family. His father was representative of foreign firms, some of them from Nuremberg[2] Mir studied at the Llotja before joining the Colla del Safrà group with Canals, Nonell, and Pichot. Thanks to an agreemen


Biography

Spanish Catalan painter. A pupil of Lluis Graner (1863-1929), he also studied at the Escola de Belles Arts (Llotja) of Barcelona (1894-95). Mir was a member of la Colla del Safrà, a group of young artists who painted the fields in the countryside outside Barcelona. The Cathedral of the Poor (1898; private collection) is among his most important works of this period: it is a realistic group portrait of beggars near Antoni Gaudí's Temple de la Sagrada Familia during its construction in Barcelona.

In 1899 Mir settled with Santiago Rusiñol in Mallorca, where he knew the Belgian Symbolist painter William Degouve de Nuncques. However, preferring to live alone, he went to the area around the Torrent de Pareis, a canyon in the north of the island; there he painted a number of extraordinary works, for example the large-scale Enchanted Cove (1.55*2 m; Museo de la Abadia), in which the forms merged into evanescent stains of colour. His one-man exhibition in 1901 at the Sala Parés in Barcelona met with public incomprehension, but he was praised by critics as the new great

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