Portrait of Santiago Rusiñol

"On the 19th of January 1926 a lot of elegant people attended the homage to Santiago Rusiñol (Barcelona, 1861 - Aranjuez, 1931) that was organized in Sitges. The event was driven by Catalan intellectuals and in the presence of many representatives of the Modernist and Noucentist movements.

The main and more crowded act happened at the foot of El Greco’s monument, where Josep M. de Sagarra read a speech praising Rusiñol. Right after the painter grandson gave his grandfather a laurel and oak bouquet made in wrought iron.

On that day Santiago Rusiñol also received this splendid charcoal drawing that the honor committee commissioned to Ramon Casas. The venerable portrait that Casas made of Rusiñol contrasts with a pair of portraits of the painter, also exhibited in this hall, that were made time ago when he was younger and had many projects ahead.
The first one was made by MT Müller, a colleague of the Académie de la Palette, during the years he spent in Paris. The second one was made by Casas during a visit to Madrid in 1904."