You can now visit the new monographic room devoted to Catalan avant-garde art in which works are exhibited by outstanding artists from this period such as Leandre Cristòfol, Ángel Ferrant, Antoni Clavé, Jaume Sans, Artur Carbonell, Lamolla or Salvador Ortiga. In the field of photography, there are images by Pere Català Pic, Emili Godes and Josep Masana. A total of 29 works are on show, comprising paintings, collages, posters, drawings, sculptures and photographs. The new section has been formed from pieces that were already in the MNAC’s collections and from recent acquisitions, donations and loans of works, some of them highly emblematic like Artur Carbonell’s Constellation or Crouching Hydraulic Camagüey by Jaume Sans.

In Catalonia, the 1930s was a decade of notable avant-garde activity focused fundamentally on two centres: the city of Barcelona, where the Amics de l’Art Nou (Friends of New Art) played a key role in the promotion and dissemination of the art that was being produced inside and outside the country; and Lleida, where a group of young artists were breaking the artistic inertias of the local scene by putting into practice some of the principles of the avant-garde. These artists were greatly influenced by Surrealism, without doubt by Miró and Dalí. Moreover, photography was part of the discourse of radical renewal then predominant on the international scene.