Image: Cau Ferrat Museum, Sitges
Museu de Maricel highlighted Ramon Casas’s ‘Maricel des del Cau Ferrat’ in a notice published on 9 September 2026, drawing attention to a work that connects two of Sitges’s modernist cultural landmarks. Dated to around 1911, the painting is an oil on canvas held by the Museu de Maricel.
The view takes its subject from the Cau Ferrat, looking towards Maricel. That relationship is encoded in the title itself and gives the work a distinctly local focus: Casas’s painting records one Sitges landmark through the vantage point of another. The notice presents the work without a further curatorial explanation, allowing the named places and the painting’s date to carry the announcement.
The spotlight also arrives as Casas appears elsewhere in Sitges. Two of his portraits are being shown in the exhibition ‘Absències i presències. Els artistes de Charles Deering a la Col·lecció d’Art Banc Sabadell’ at the Cau Ferrat Museum: ‘Retrat de senyora’ from 1904 and ‘Retrat de Maria Caralt’ from around 1907. The first is a drawing in pencil, ink and wash on paper; the second is an oil painting on canvas.
Together, the notices identify distinct aspects of Casas’s work without conflating the presentations. At the Museu de Maricel, the emphasis falls on a painted view tied to Sitges’s built and cultural landscape. At Cau Ferrat, the related exhibition presents two portraits, including ‘Retrat de Maria Caralt’, an oil on canvas dating to around 1907.
