Ramón Casas i Carbó (4 January 1866 – 29 February 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; he 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. Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.
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Ramon Casas i Carbó 4 January 1866 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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29 February 1932 (aged 66) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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