בידספיריט | A Catalan Street Scene By

A Catalan Street Scene By Baldomero Galofre Giménez 1849-1902 - Description Signed (lower right) Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 49 x 38 cm Condition Minimal paint loss on right edge. Biography Baldomero Galofre Giménez (painter, Reus, 24 March 1849 - Barcelona, 26 July 1902) was a student of Ramón Martí Alsina (1826-1894), a famous landscape painter influenced by Courbet and the school of Barbizon, whose realism mixed with familiar intimacy was conveyed to his most prominent disciple, an outstanding representative of the Catalan traditionalism. Giménez had many successive exhibitions in Barcelona in 1866, 1870, and 1872 as well as in 1868 in Zaragoza. Giménez was a multi talented artist, painting outstanding genre paintings as well as landscapes and seascapes.