Museo Modernisme

During our two days (April 11th, 13th) on Montjuic we also managed to squeeze in a visit to the Museo Modernisme in L'Eixample. Alas, we know rather little about Art Nouveau furniture--other than we like it--so I did not record the makers of the various items depicted below. We just like to gawk and marvel at the stuff...

Model of Casa Battlo

Gaudi's sketch of what the church at Colonia
Guell would have looked like 

Modernista lift

Museu Nacional d'Art Catalunya: A Few Interiors

The Museu building is enormous and majestic and worthy of a few pix itself...

From Caixa Forum

We had lunch one day in the huge Oval, well, not on the floor,
where they were setting up for a corporate dinner that evening,
but in an adjoining area

Fancy dinner

One of the several domes

Menu for the tasting restaurant...quite
reasonable except it was all Catalan and
nothing I wanted to taste

Another dome

The Oval next day

Another incredible place we look forward to returning to...

Museu Nacional d'Art Catalunya: Modernist

The MNAC mixes Modernist painting, sculpture, furniture, etc., pretty freely, which seems appropriate. It was a movement, of sorts, that spilled over every line.

In a display of furniture by Gaudi and his disciple Jujol; Gaudi had few disciples...

Did not get the title or artist, but liked this

Loved this one, too, Ramon Casas' Bull (Dead Horse); note
the matador hiding behind the live horse

Pablo Gargallo, Portrait of Picasso, 1913

Fransesc Masriera, In the Presence of the Lord, 1891;
somehow Klimtish (is that a word?)

Dali's portrait of his father, 1925; they did not agree on art

Among the domes at MNAC

Picasso's Woman in Hat and Fur Collar, 1937

Muchas

Age of posters..evaporated milk and absinthe...a popular Spanish drink even today
is Tiger's Milk...milk and gin; seriously

Cointreau for kiddies?

Another Ramon Casas, Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in a
Motor Car, 1901

Alas, my favorite Casas was on loan in Madrid

More incredible furniture

Lambert Escaler, Female Bust with Mirror, 1902

Entire rooms...

This space available

Incredible stuff, incredible age...too bad it was such a dead end