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Josep Costa VilaAfternoon with Family oil on canvas painting1985
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About the Item
Title: Afternoon with Family
Artist: Josep Costa Vila
Date: 1985
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28.7 x 36.2 inches (73 x 92 cm)
Framing: Unframed
Signature: Signed "Costa Vila 85" in the lower right corner
Condition: Good
Provenance: Private collection
𧞠Artwork Description
In Afternoon with Family, Josep Costa Vila portrays a quiet interior scene filled with intimacy and soft emotion. A group of women, joined by a child, are captured in a moment of domestic stillness. The composition is defined by a loose brushstroke and an almost vaporous atmosphere, where forms gently dissolve into the surrounding space. Rather than documenting reality, Costa Vila evokes a memory â a fleeting instant suspended in time.
Muted tones and a subdued palette enhance the nostalgic quality of the work. The light, diffused and ambient, unifies figures and background in a tender, dreamlike haze. The viewer is drawn not just into a space, but into a feeling â of closeness, of familial warmth, of lives quietly intertwined.
The piece recalls the domestic intimacy of the Nabis, especially Ădouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, while also echoing the luminous sensitivity of JoaquĂn Sorolla and the expressive silence found in the work of Isidre Nonell.
đ¨âđ¨ About the Artist: Josep Costa Vila
Josep Costa Vila was born in 1953 in Granollers, near Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona from 1969 to 1974, and later at the Escola Massana until 1977. He refined his practice in the studio of renowned painter Isidre Vicenç, where he developed the atmospheric and expressive language that defines his work.
Throughout his career, Costa Vila has lived and worked in Paris, London, and Barcelona, cities that deeply influenced his visual sensibility. His paintings often depict urban settings, human figures, and intimate interiors, blending realism with a poetic sense of abstraction.
He has exhibited widely across Spain and Europe, and his works are part of numerous private and institutional collections.
đ¨ Related or Influential Artists
Costa Vilaâs work resonates with:
Ădouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard â for their intimate, domestic spaces
JoaquĂn Sorolla â for his light and atmosphere
Isidre Nonell â for his emotional depth and expressive brushwork
RamĂłn Casas â for his elegant portrayals of everyday life
Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita â for his delicate treatment of the human figure
- Creator:Josep Costa Vila (1953, Spanish)
- Creation Year:1985
- Dimensions:Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 36.23 in (92 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Sitges, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1155216078682
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