Noguera Street Seen from Balmes Street

This is Gimeno’s last work, according to a document attached to the back of the picture, signed by Francisco Sans Gimeno, the artist’s grandchild and dated June 1968.

This is a work that fully preserves the painter’s usual vigour and freshness, despite having been painted during a time in his life when many artists adopt a clearly affected style. It is an emotional theme in Gimeno’s work since it shows the street in the former village1 of Sant Gervasi de Cassoles in which the painter lived and died and which is now called after him. Of the buildings that appear in the picture, the first house on the left still stands, as do the last one in the street, to the right (although it has been altered and repaired), and the house that blocks off the street at the far end. The dilapidated tower that dominates the composition still exists today, although it is no longer visible from the place where Gimeno painted the picture, having been hidden by some new apartment buildings.