By Casimir Martinez Tarrasso
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Spanish Modernist Female Figure Drawing, Catalan Post-Impressionist Pencil Work
Elegant 1970s pencil drawing of a seated woman by Casimir Martínez Tarrassó, a Catalan artist connected to post-impressionism, fauvist color culture and Mediterranean modernism.
Artist: Casimir Martínez Tarrassó
Title: Seated Woman
Medium: Pencil on paper
Date: c.1975
Artwork dimensions: 31 × 21 cm / 12.20 × 8.27 in
Framed dimensions: 47 × 37 cm / 18.50 × 14.57 in
Frame: Included
Condition: Good vintage condition
Origin: Spain
Style: Spanish Modernism, Catalan Post-Impressionism, Figurative Drawing
DESCRIPTION
This delicate pencil drawing by Casimir Martínez Tarrassó captures a seated female figure within an intimate interior scene, rendered with quick, expressive and confident graphite strokes.
Rather than a finished academic study, the work has the immediacy of an artist’s private notebook: direct, nervous, elegant and full of movement. The seated woman appears surrounded by fragments of domestic space, giving the composition a quiet psychological atmosphere and a distinctly European studio feeling.
Tarrassó’s line is loose but controlled, suggesting form through rhythm rather than detail. The drawing belongs to the refined tradition of modern works on paper, where the value lies not in decorative excess but in the visible intelligence of the hand.
This piece will appeal especially to collectors of Spanish modern art, Catalan artists, female figure drawings, post-impressionist works on paper and intimate European modernist interiors.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Casimir Martínez Tarrassó (Barcelona, 1900–1979) was a Catalan painter and draughtsman trained at La Llotja School in Barcelona. He later continued his artistic education in Paris, where he came into contact with the atmosphere of French modern painting and the fauvist movement.
His work is closely associated with Mediterranean landscapes, still lifes and figurative compositions, combining Catalan pictorial tradition with the influence of French post-impressionism and modernism. He exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and Bilbao, and received several distinctions, including the Pollença Prize in 1962 and the Santiago...
Category
1970s Impressionist Art by Medium: Pencil
