Joan Cardona Llados
Paris modernist scene mixed media drawimg
c.1900

About the Item

Joan Cardona Lladós (1877-1957) - Modernist Paris scene - Mixed media Drawing measurements 40x29 cm. Frame measurements 66x54 cm. He was born in Barcelona on June 30, 1877, he was registered with the name of Juan Bautista José Pedro. His parents Josep Cardona i Farré (Sant Salvador, 1852-Barcelona, ?) and Maria Lladós i Vidal (Isona, 1855-Barcelona, 1935) came from Sant Salvador de Toló and Isona, respectively, two towns very close to Tremp, in the Pallars Jussà region, close to the Lleida Pyrenees. The Cardona Lladós family was of humble origins, linked to the rural and peasant world. José Cardona and María Lladós married around 1876, when they were twenty-five and twenty-one years old respectively. The couple decided to improve their precarious situation by moving to live in Barcelona. In 1877 Joan Cardona was born in the family home, at 62 Mediana de San Pedro Street, in the Ribera neighborhood of Barcelona and very close to the Rec Comtal. Joan Cardona was the firstborn of three brothers. When he was six years old, his sister Consuelo was born (1883) and later his younger sister, María (1888), was born. Josep Cardona i Farré was a day laborer and lived at least until the birth of his third daughter, María, in 1888. Her death, for reasons unknown to us, would occur shortly after. After the death of Josep Cardona, León Farré i Duró (Isona, 1867-Barcelona, 1932) became part of the family nucleus with his mother María Lladós, who took care of the child Cardona and his sisters Consuelo and María. Farré learned to play the guitar and was the most extraordinary disciple of the composer and guitarist Francesc Tàrrega i Eixea (Vila-real, 1852-Barcelona, 1909). Joan Cardona had in her stepfather the man who instilled in her a special musical and artistic sensitivity. The young Cardona took classes at the Academia Baixas, inaugurated in 1892 by the painter Joan Baixas i Carreter and installed on Carrer del Pi, a private center where a good batch of leading Catalan Modernisme artists were trained. Cardona married Clemencia Parade Cazabat at the beginning of the century. Daughter of Carles Parade and Amara Cazabat, she was born in 1870 in Bagnères de Bigorre, in French Occitania. They had no offspring. From 1894 Cardona began to participate in the Fine Arts Exhibitions of Barcelona. With an academic style, he had yet to define his own artistic personality. At only 17 years old, Cardona participated in the II General Exhibition of Fine Arts in Barcelona, with the work titled "El zagal", an oil painting on canvas whose price was 250 pesetas. In the third edition of the Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries of Barcelona, held at the Palau de Belles Arts, Cardona participated with a watercolor titled "Beggar", which received the same rating.

Creator:

Joan Cardona Llados (1877 - 1957, Spanish)

Creation Year:

c.1900

Dimensions:

Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 11.42 in (29 cm)

Medium:

Mixed Media

Movement & Style:

Modern

Period:

1890-1899