MUSEU CLARÀ, Barcelona. Postcard (1974)

MUSEU CLARÀ
Barcelona

Postcard published by Comercial Escudo de Oro nº 3 / 7891 (1974).

The Clarà Museum was an art museum located in Barcelona, ​​created in 1969 in the Tres Torres neighborhood, which collected a series of sculptures by Josep Clarà. When it was closed, in 1995, a large part of the museum's collection was transferred to the National Museum of Art of Catalonia and the Museu de la Garrotxa (in Olot).

Josep Clarà i Ayats (Olot 1878 - Barcelona 1958) was a Catalan sculptor educated at the Fine Arts schools of Olot, Toulouse and Paris, the city where he settled. In the 1910s he was considered one of the leaders of the Catalan Noucentisme and established his own classic model. He returned to Catalonia in 1932. Many of his sculptures can be found, as public art, in various places in the city of Barcelona. He also excelled as a draftsman.

Traveler's collection.