Ramon Casas (1866 – 1932) was a Spanish artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond.
Casas was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets (El garrot). Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.
Here below is a set of amazing photos that shows posters designed by Ramon Casas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ramón Casas y Pere Romeu en un tándem, 1897
Sombras, Quatre Gats, Barcelona, 1897
“Anise for a monkey”. Badalona, Spain, 1898
Advertising poster for Codorniu Champagne, Manuel Raventós vineyards, circa 1898
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