France: 'Au Moulin de la Galette' (At the Moulin de la Galette). Oil on Canvas, Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932), 1892

Ramon Casas i Carbó (4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan 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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