Ramon Barnadas Fabregas, Olot, Girona, 1909-Vic. Barcelona, 1981, A precocious painter, at the age of ten he entered the School of Fine Arts in Olot, and made his individual debut in 1929, in the Layetanas Galleries in Barcelona. Only six years later he was appointed professor at the School of Fine Arts in his native city.

He exhibited his work in Spain, Mexico and Switzerland, and won first prizes at the National Exhibition of Madrid and the International Exhibition of Palamós, the national landscape prize of the Estrada Foundation and the Ricardo Portabella prize. Barnadas, with his sketchy style, went beyond the lessons learned from realism and impressionism, becoming part of the evolutionary avant-garde of Catalonia at the ...