Portrait of Vincent Nubiola

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Folkwang Museum (Essen, Germany).

The artist met Vincent Nubiola at the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona, ​​where he studied from 1913. In the portrait, the teacher is depicted sitting at a table and thoughtfully smoking a pipe. The collar of his shirt is unfastened, and his pose is natural and calm; only tense nervous hands and a heap of bright geometric figures in the background create expression and dynamics in the picture. The portrait is a striking example of Miro’s experiments with cubism and fauvism in the early period of his work. In the same year, the artist created several more portraits in a similar style, one of which is a self-portrait in the same shirt as Nubiola’s.