Career
In 1879, he went to Paris and supported his studies by selling small canvases and sketches of cityscapes. His style was, however, decisively influenced by a brief tour of Italy. Upon his return to Spain in 1881, he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts.
He used the proceeds to return to Italy.
In 1892, he went back to Paris and began to associate with the Impressionists, producing changes in his use of colors. Five years later, he accepted an invitation from the President of the "Gabinete Literario", and moved to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
His home there became a makeshift art academy, where Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre was one of his students. More travels
His fame peaked at the turn of the century, with exhibitions in South America as well as Europe.
He arrived there in 1903, held his first exhibition shortly after and organized a large exposition of Catalonian painters in 1904, including five pastels by Pablo Picasso.
In 1905, he was offered the position of Director at the "Escola de d´Arts i Oficis de Palma" on Mallorca, accepted, and moved again. He continued to travel however, to France, Italy, Buenos Aires and Brussels, where he participated in the International Exposition, winning the Silver Meda He then settled briefly in New York, where he displayed his paintings of Mallorca and Cadaqués, a village where he had spent his summers since 1886.
Finally, in 1917, he returned to Barcelona to stay.
When the Spanish Civil War began, he and his family fled to Manresa, where they lived as refugees until 1939. In December of that year, his final exhibition was held in Barcelona at the Sala Gaspar.
lieutenant was a critical and financial success, but he was too ill to attend. A few weeks later, his health worsened rapidly and he died in February.