By Joan Asensio Marine
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Artist: Joaquín Asensio Mariné (Barcelona, 1890 – 1961)
Title: Catalan Farmhouse with Garden and Bare Trees
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions (unframed): 38 × 46 cm (14.96 × 18.11 in)
Dimensions (framed): 52 × 60 cm (20.47 × 23.62 in)
Signature: Signed lower left
Period: Mid-20th Century
Condition: Very good condition. Stable pictorial layer with well-preserved original impasto and no visible losses.
Frame condition: Period gilt wooden frame with minor wear consistent with age.
Presented: Sold with its current frame.
Original oil painting by Catalan artist Joaquín Asensio Mariné, depicting a traditional Catalan farmhouse surrounded by a vegetable garden and winter trees.
The composition is built with energetic, textured brushwork and visible impasto, giving the surface strong material presence and movement. The artist employs a rich Mediterranean palette of ochres, greens and blue-grey tones, capturing the rustic architecture and intimate atmosphere of rural Catalonia.
Asensio Mariné constructs the scene with expressive confidence, balancing structural solidity in the buildings with freer gestural treatment in the vegetation and sky. The thick paint application enhances the tactile quality of the work, making it visually dynamic and highly decorative.
Mid-century Catalan rural landscapes remain particularly appreciated by collectors for their authenticity, regional character and timeless Mediterranean appeal.
An attractive and characterful example of 20th-century Spanish landscape painting.
Joaquín Asensio Mariné (Barcelona, 1890 – 1961) was a Catalan painter known for his Mediterranean landscapes, rural architecture and traditional countryside scenes.
Active in Barcelona during the first half of the 20th century, he exhibited in galleries such as Sala Rovira and Galería Jaimes. His work sits between traditional realism and a restrained impressionist language, characterized by textured brushwork and a luminous Mediterranean palette.
His rural compositions share affinities with the broader tradition of Spanish landscape painting associated with artists such as Joaquín Sorolla, Eliseu Meifrèn and the Catalan post-impressionist school, while maintaining a distinctly regional character.
Today his works are appreciated by collectors of mid-century Spanish and Mediterranean painting for their authenticity, decorative strength and connection to Catalan artistic heritage.
Mid Century Painting
Mediterranean Landscape
Catalan Landscape
Spanish Landscape Painting
Rustic Farmhouse Art...
Category
1930s Impressionist Barcelona - Art
