Image: Cau Ferrat Museum, Sitges
Museu de Maricel has marked the birth of Josep Maria Llopis i de Casades, the Sitges-born artist who was born in 1886 and died in Barcelona in 1915. In a post noting the occasion, the museum pointed to one work in its collection by the artist: 'Jardí' (1910), an oil painting on canvas.
Llopis i de Casades is identified by the museum as an artist who took part in the international art exhibitions held in Barcelona in 1907 and 1911. Those exhibitions were important moments in the city’s modern art history, bringing together artists working in a period of active exchange and public display.
The museum’s reference to 'Jardí' places the work within that early 20th-century context. Dated 1910, the painting belongs to the years between Llopis i de Casades’s participation in the Barcelona exhibitions, and it is one of the artist’s works held at Museu de Maricel.
The note appears in connection with a commemorative date for the artist and serves as a reminder of the museum’s role in preserving material by figures associated with Sitges and Barcelona’s artistic culture. The collection mention is concise, but it identifies both the medium and date of the work, providing a clear catalogue-style reference for the piece.
Museu de Maricel’s post does not describe the painting’s subject beyond its title, nor does it add further biographical detail beyond the artist’s birth in Sitges and death in Barcelona. It does, however, situate Llopis i de Casades among the artists connected to the Barcelona international art exhibitions of 1907 and 1911, and it confirms that 'Jardí' (1910) is preserved in the museum’s holdings.
