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Santiago Rusiñol devoted himself with equal fortune to the fields of painting and literature. His prominent personality made a great contribution to the promotion of Modernisme, becoming one of the movement's most outstanding figures. Inseparable from fellow painter Ramon Casas, the two artists rented an apartment together with Miquel Utrillo at Montmartre's Moulin de la Galette in the early 1890s. At this time Rusiñol produced naturalist works in the line of those painted by Casas, which included some Impressionist ideas. During his second Parisian sojourn around 1894 Rusiñol turned to the aesthetics of Decadentism, while at the turn of the century he began his highly successful series of Gardens of Spain. A painting by Ignacio Zuloaga and the sculpture Eve by Enric Clarasó, one of the most emblematic Modernista sculptures, complete this section. Both artists were good friends of Rusiñol's.
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Eve |
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Female Figure |
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