Explore the History of this artwork, Salon Pedal.
Els Quatre Gats is a famous cafe and considered as one of the main generators of the cultural movement known as Modernisme. It was the scene of lively conversations between Catalan artists Santiago Rusinol, Ramon Casas, Maurice Utrillo, Pablo Picasso and Isidre Nonell. Casas decorated the cafe with two large paintings: "one, entitled Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem, features the painter with Pere Romeu, the owner of the cafe, on a bicycle; the other depicts the car which Casas, one of the first car owners in Catalonia, drove himself. These works represent the beginning of Modernisme, and the movement's interest in "mechanical innovations and the fascination of the painters and sculptors of this century for everything that went on around them.  This is how sporting events became subjects for their works."
Maurice Utrillo Catalonia car Isidre Nonell Modernism Els Quatre Gats Santiago Rusinol Ramon Casas Modernisme Catalan Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem Pablo Picasso