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Tom Gurney BSc (Hons) is an art history expert with over 20 years experience
Published on August 27, 2026 / Updated on September 6, 2026
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Paintings: Introduction

Ramon Casas' paintings and graphic works form one of the clearest visual routes into Catalan modernisme. His career moves from youthful self-fashioning and Paris training to Barcelona cafe culture, portraiture, poster design and images of modern social life.

This hub introduces a compact route through Casas' work: not a complete catalogue, but a reliable reading sequence built from museum records and wider context.

At a Glance

  • First routeRamon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem
  • Identity anchorMNAC's 1883 Self-portrait
  • Graphic anchorAnis del Mono and poster culture
  • Hub scopeIllustrated MNAC works plus museum-recorded context

Contents

  1. How This Hub Selects Works
  2. Selected Ramon Casas Artworks
  3. Painting, Poster and Social Life

How This Hub Selects Works

This page is a curated reading surface rather than a speculative top-ten list. Every featured work needs a reliable museum, national collection or similar source.

The two works shown with images are the MNAC self-portrait and the MNAC tandem painting. Other works remain useful context where the museum record is strong, even when this page does not show an image.

Selected Ramon Casas Artworks

Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu riding a tandem bicycle
Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem
Ramon Casas self-portrait from 1883
Self-portrait
Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in an Automobile, showing the pair driving a red motor car
Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in an Automobile
Ramon Casas' Decadent Young Woman After the Dance, showing a woman in black reclining on a green sofa
Decadent Young Woman. After the Dance
Ramon Casas' Corpus Christi Procession Leaving Santa Maria del Mar, showing a crowd and procession outside the church
The Corpus Christi Procession Leaving Santa Maria del Mar
Ramon Casas' Flora, showing a reclining woman with red flowers
Flora

Painting, Poster and Social Life

Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem gathers the artist, Pere Romeu, Els Quatre Gats and Barcelona modernisme into one public image. [7]

The 1883 Self-portrait gives the hub an early identity anchor from Casas' Paris formation, while Decadent Young Woman. After the Dance and Anis del Mono extend the reading path toward figure painting and graphic modernity. [6] [5]

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ramon Casas' most famous painting?
Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem is the strongest first answer here because MNAC and Catalan heritage sources treat it as an emblematic image of modernisme and Els Quatre Gats.
No. Portraits were central to his reputation, but he also made social paintings, cafe-world images, posters, magazine graphics and works tied to modern public culture.

Discussion

Which work gives you the clearest first route into Casas: the self-portrait, the tandem, a poster or a social painting?

Reader Insights

Close Looking

How does the tandem painting behave differently from a conventional portrait?

Context

What changes when poster design is treated as central to Casas rather than secondary?

Open Question

Which museum-recorded work should readers explore after the MNAC pair?

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References

  1. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, "Ramon Casas y Pere Romeu en un tandem", accessed 25 July 2026.
  2. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, "Self-portrait", accessed 25 July 2026.
  3. Museu de Montserrat, "Ramon Casas - Joven decadente. Despues del baile", accessed 25 July 2026.
  4. Museo Reina Sofia, "Anis del Mono. Mono y mona", accessed 25 July 2026.
  5. Museo Nacional del Prado, "Casas y Carbo, Ramon", accessed 25 July 2026.
  6. Biblioteca Nacional de Espana, "Casas, Ramon", accessed 25 July 2026.
  7. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. Ramon Casas, Ramon Casas y Pere Romeu en un tandem / Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem, 1897, oil on canvas, 188 x 215.5 cm, acquired 1964, catalogue number 069806-000. Rights note recorded by MNAC: Domini public. Source image file. Accessed 25 July 2026.
  8. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. Ramon Casas, Self-portrait / Autoretrat, 1883, oil on canvas, 115.5 x 96 cm, Plandiura Collection, purchased 1932, inventory 004037-000. Rights note recorded by MNAC: Domini public. Source image file. Accessed 25 July 2026.