Who painted “Plein air”?

“Plein air” was painted by Ramon Casas in 1890. Where to see it: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

What to look for

Art Nouveau: sinuous, flowing lines, flat decorative areas and plant ornament, often with a woman as the centre; Art Deco, later, is geometric and streamlined.

Ramon Casas i Carbó (4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan artist from Spain. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, Catalonia, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond. Wikipedia

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More by Ramon Casas

“Over My Dead Body”, 1893
“Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem”, 1897
“Garrote vil (Garrotte)”, 1894
“Moulin de la Galette Interior”, 1890
“La Carrega”, 1903
“Au Moulin de la Galette”, 1892
“Portrait of Elisa Casas”, 1889
“Bal du Moulin de la Galette”, 1890