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Ramón Pichot i Gironés
(Barcelona 1871 − París, 1925)
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19th-20th century Spanish
Ramón Pichot was born in Barcelona to a highly creative family. His home was a regular meeting place for artists and intellectuals, and virtually all his siblings eventually went on to embrace some kind of artistic activity.
Pichot was a member of a collective known as La Colla del Safrà (Saffron Group), which owed its name to the abundance of yellow and ochre tones used by its members in their paintings: Isidre Nonell (1872-1911), Joaquim Mir (1873-1940), Ricard Canals (1876-1931), Joaquim Sunyer (1874-1956), Adrià Gual (1872-1943) and Juli Vallmitjana (1873-1937). La Colla del Safrà was also connected with members of the Catalan avant-garde circle who met at Els Quatre Gats, including renowned artists like Ramón Casas (1866-1932) and Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931).
Pichot travelled to Paris, Normandy and Granada in the company of Rusiñol, and collaborated with him, illustrating his book Fulls de la vida. The large number of works by Pichot at Museu del Cap Ferrat, Rusiñol’s emblematic home-studio in Sitges, bears witness to the close friendship of both painters.
In Paris, Pichot met Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Germaine (Laure Gargallo), the great muse of the time, who he married in 1906. Together with Picasso he decorated Le Zut, one of the regular meeting places at the time. Unlike many of his coevals, for Pichot, Paris was much more than a brief juvenile phase. He settled there in the early 1900s, with the rest of the Pichot family joining him shortly afterwards.
A defining trait of his practice was the synthesis of many of the signature elements of the renewal of art in Catalonia, in tune with a naturalistic tendency permeated with Modernisme. With the passing of time he evolved towards a painting driven by a strong ornamental sense and a focus on the use of colour. His late work contained many rural scenes and, apart from painting, Pichot also created graphic and pastel works and drawings.
Works by Pichot may be found at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, at the Museo Nacional del Prado and at the Museu del Cau Ferrat.