Blue Goya Gaudi,Barcelona Triangle painting by Carol Sutton

Barcelona Triangle Workshop Paintings

sub type: Specific Historically Based Paintings© by Carol Sutton

(1987) Blue Goya Gaudi

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain

July and August, 1987

Size: 90.5 inches by 127 inches, or cm by cm, show here unstretched and unframed. The painting has never been stretched or framed and is rolled up in the artist studio.

Inventory #87/05/27

Materials: Golden Acrylic on cotton canvas (in two pieces, note join is about 1/5 from the bottom edge of the painting. )

A little story: This is because I could not get the large size canvas that I wanted to work on at first. Once walking by an open door in the hotel that all the artist were staying in [Hotel Espana, at Sant Pau, 9 (08001) and about 2 blocks north of Paule Guell, just off the Rambus-WEB is http://www.hotelespanya.com/eng/bienvenida.htm], I noticed a lady sewing sheets toghether. That gave me the idea to ask her if she would be willing to sew together my canvas for me. She said yes and was happy to do it. Later I traded a painting to the lady manager of Hotel Espana in exchange for her sewing toghter for me 2 pieces of canvas; as a way of thanking her for her effort. I was thrilled that the couple went out and had it framed and hung it over the reception desk in the lobby of the hotel. That made me think the Spainish really do apprciate art.)

Note: I saw this portrait painting in the show up at the same time that the event of the Barcelona Triangle Workshop was taking place. I got the related exhibition book at that exhibit. I was awe struck by its powerful prescence. I went with my husband Andre Fauteux to see this exhibit.

Two Sources: Goya's amazing portrait of Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Alvarez de Toledo, dotzena duquessa d' Alba,

Collection: Casa de Alba. This painting has a blue ground.

and the ironwork on the main two front gates of Palua Guell by Antoni Gaudi i Cornet 91852-1926) , Barcelona, Spain. Built between 1886 and 1888 for the family of Eusebi Güell Bacigalupi, is located at No. 35 Carrer Nou de la Rambla in Barcelona.

Provenance: shown in closing day exhibition of same, Collection: of the artist

Web provenance: none

**Two Combined Sources of Inspiration:**

**Goya** represented by his portrait of the Duchess of Alba. Plus the ironwork on the front gates of Palua Guell by **Gaudi,** used in the upper left side of the painting.
image credit: Paelle Guell Gate upper portion. Palua Guell is a World Heritage Site. "UNESCO classified Palau Güell as World Heritage in 1984. Owned by the Diputació de Barcelona since 1945, it now houses the Library of the Institut del Teatre."by J. Meltzer. Source: Features: I used only the top portion of the gate. Use it in reverse. Change the color and paint it in blue	The photo to the left is: ironwork on the main two front gates of Palua Guell by Antoni Gaudi i Cornet (1852-1926) , Barcelona, Spain.	image credit: FUNDACIÓN DE LA CASA DE ALBA (House of Alba Foundation) is in Madrid, Spain. I was lucky to see a touring exhibition to Barcelona in 1987. The Palacio de Liria houses a collection of art belonging to the Duchess of Alba. Great masters such as Goya, Zurbarán, Renoir and Titian can be admired. Palacio de Liria, Calle Princesa, 20. Metro: Plaza de España, Ventura Rodriguez & Arguelles. Visits by appointment only. 91 547 53 02.	Source: Overall use of this painting. Plus note these features: The Split Landscape feature on either side of the mid section of her dress. The gold lines at the hemline. The red bow in her black hair. The fireplace vermillion red color waist band, bow and necklace. The little royal dog with a red bow on his rear leg. Goya-Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Alvarez de Toledo, dotzena duquessa d' Alba, 1785. Oil on canvas. Collection: Casa de Alba, Spain

Detail of litle dog in the corner

with red bow on his leg

detail of painting by Carol Sutton

detail of painting by Goya

self photo portrait cls goya gaudi by Carol Sutton 1987

(1987) Self Portrait of Carol Sutton standing in front of Blue Goya Gaudi

Timeline: Photograph taken after Barcelona Triangle Workshop in the studio of Carol Sutton, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,

Date: Fall of 1987

Size: slide

Provenance: none

Owner of photograph: Carol Sutton artist and photographer

Web provenance: none prior, this is the premier publication on www.carolsutton.net

scan credit: Carol Sutton

Note:

Upper left side corner detail of the giant painting made in Barcelona, Spain. Palette of sea green, grey blue, and breaking white light color make up the Gaudi inspired corner meshed in with the black curly Spanish hair of the Princess, her red hair bow, the two circles are the color the artist calls 'Barcelona Fireplace', which are made to look glowing and to match the waist band and orange-red in the orginal Goya painting.

One Source is:

and the ironwork on the main two front gates of Palua Guell by Antoni Gaudi i Cornet 91852-1926) , Barcelona, Spain.

Additional canvas added to increase the canvas size before the painting began.
	Photograph by: Fotografia Ferran Freixa #451, offical photographer for the Barcelona Triangle. Carol Sutton in her Barcelona Triangle studio showing how she added a piece of canvas onto the Blue-Goya_Gaudi painting in order to extend the edge of the canvas to a artist visitor of the workshop. (I think the visitor looking on was artist Helen Frankenthaler?)

SPANISH HERITAGE IN FAMILY TREE

CAROL LORRAINE SUTTON is a descendant of

Captain Gabriel Sistare of Barcelona, Spain.

My mother's side of our family tree. My mother's

maiden surname was Sustare

Brief Chart:

Don Gabriel SISTARE/ SISTÉRÉ/ SISTAIRE/ Sistarre, my 5G Maternal Grandfather, born abt 1700---

and his wife Marie Mityavila , my 5G Grandmother

(listed as Mityavila? in New London, Conn. information)-

born about 1700 in San Martin, Cassa De La Selva, Gerona, Spain, or San Feliu, Gerona, Gerona, Spain,SANT FELIU DE GUIXOLS

{LDS{Latter Day Saints}, IGI list multiple Mityavila families from this location.}

FULL Chart:

DESCENT CHART PLUS CHILDREN, NEW LONDON, CT., + PUBLIC RECORDS OF NEW LONDON, MAY 1773, MAY 1801

Captain Lazaro José Gabriel Sistare II ,CT---Elizabeth Beebe (2nd wife)

link: http://www.geocities.com/paris/loft/5220/sistare.html

John Thomas Sistare(youngest son)*--Mary Gwendolyn Outen of S.C.

James Hiram Richardson Sistare(a twin)--Holly Elizabeth Hemby( mother 5 children, including the 2 twin boys.)

Barnum Alexander Sustare---Sarah Amanda Ferguson

Beverly Townsend Sustare--Nannie Clara Williams

Nancy Chester Sustare Sutton--Robert William Sutton

Carol Lorraine Sutton, me, 2nd child of 3 children

Well known and also unknown, Canadian abstract painter, Carol Sutton, who has lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for the past 30 years, is a Spanish descendant on her Mother's side; Nancy Chester Sustare was her mother. She was very beautiful and had black Spanish hair and blue eyes.

Captain Gabriel Sistare of Barcelona, Spain, who's own ship the "Montserrete"bound from Havana, Cuba to Cadiz, Spain, with a cargo of spices and suger, was blown off course and dismantled in gale winds, onto the coast of New London, Connecticut on October 9, 1771; where he settled until death in February 23, 1795 at age 70 and is buried in New London, Connecticut. Sutton's visits to Spain that began in 1987 have had profound influences on her art.

Captain Gabriel Sistaire (marked as Sistarre, in the 1790 Connecticut Census-Marlon Sustaire) , full name was Captain Lazaro José Gabriel Sistare II was born May 1, 1725 in Barcelona, Spain. His parents were Don Gabriel Sistare and Marie Mityavila. In Barcelona he married Maria Francesca Molas and had one son, Gabriel, Jr., who subsequently came to America in 1772 with a Captain De Shon. ( or Deshon) Captain Gabriel Sistarie's wife Maria could not come over, so he divorced her and remarried an English girl named Elizabeth Beebe.

Captain and Elizabeth had 7 children, which together with Gabriel Jr. makes 8 branches of the family. Sistares that are relatives. Some live in Mexico City and Barcelona, Spain today. Excite.com list Sistare in Portugal. These family members can be found in

MARLON T. SUSTAIRE,II site:

http://www.geocities.com/paris/loft/5220/sistare.html

UPDATED LINK APRIL 20, 2005

History of

New London, Connecticut &

more extensive Sistare-Sustare Chart on this link--

A related book

-Gainsborough, by Giuseppe Gatt

Published by Thames and Hudson

ISBN 0-500-41021-6

Paperback edition

LINKS

URL is http://carolsutton.net/text/spanishpress.html

Read my own Spanish Press Page

This press outlined below is a result of my involvement in Art Triangle Barcelona--

1987 Art Triangle Barcelona 4 week workshop in the Casa de La Caritat, 40 international artists ( 20 whom were Spanish and 20 whom were not Spanish), both sculptors and painters, both male and female, City of Barcelona, May 14 to June 3, 1987

in Barcelona, Spain

includes the offical book

catalogue Art Triangle Barcelona 1987, Ajuntament de Barcelona 1987, color photographs by Ferran Freixa (Spanish Photograhy Database of Ferran Freixa)

web: http://www.red2000.com/spain/barcelon/gaudi.html

has The Barcelona of Antoni Gaudí

"Palau Güell

(1886-1889) , "Carrer Nou de la Rambla 3-5"

Another work for Eusebi Güell. With its cupola, stairways and impressive windows it seems of giant dimensions, but its base is of only 18 x 12 meters."

and

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/spain/barcelona/gaudiguell/guell.html

Palau Güell (page 1 of 2)

Antoni Gaudí

1886-1890

Carrer Nou de la Rambla 3-5

Has photographs. One of the whole of the arch doorway gate.

"Gaudí, with a team of artisans and craftspersons he assembled, built this town house for the industrialist Eusebi Güell. This site, cramped with narrow streets, was not in the fashionable area of the Eixample but rather the area the Güell family had traditionally lived in. It is almost impossible to view this palace in its entirety. Two large entry gates of wrought iron dominate the lower facade. Between the gates a version of the Catalan coat of arms in wrought iron signals both Gaudí's and his patron's political views.Large enough to admit carriages (a ramp leads to stables in the basement level), the gates incorporate the initials of the owner in the art nouveau design. Their shape, the parabolic arch, becomes common in Gaudí's later work.The needle-like spire is over the dome of the great hall of the house."

© 2001 Mary Ann Sullivan. I have photographed (on site), scanned, and manipulated all the images on these pages. Please feel free to use them for personal or educational purposes. (I would appreciate being told if you find them useful.) They are not available for commercial purposes without my explicit permission.

Page maintained by Mary Ann Sullivan, sullivanm@bluffton.edu

http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/palaugel.html

Gaudí Central

Palau Güell

by Jonathan D. Meltzer

jonath22@wharton.upenn.edu

Site has excellent text and facts. For example: "The design of the Palau Güell posed two immediate problems for Gaudí. The first was space limitations as the physical area is only 22 by 18 meters. The second was confidence needed to build a new home for a leading industrialist conducting an extremely social lifestyle. Gaudí created more that twenty plans for the facade, two of which he submitted to Güell for the final choice. Rather than an indication of indecision of Gaudí's part, this action can be interpreted as an attempt to see how far the understanding of a new concept of structure and composition could go. Güell chose the parabolic shape for the entrance, an act of faith in Gaudí and the first evidence of the liberty that the architect would be able to exercise in this project. "

Barcelona Triangle Workshop Paintings

sub type: Specific Historically Based Paintings© by Carol Sutton

Barcelona Triangle, Barcelona, Spain, artist workshop

Date:1987

Participants: Plus photo of Anthony Caro

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/participants_barcelona_tri.html

plus a few photos: under construction

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/untitled.html

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Specific Historically Based Paintings - small mini images and full size images with information

TITLE page and links to Barcelona Triangle Paintings

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/barcelona_title.html

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(1987) Virgin of the Cherries

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain

PLUS Photograph by: Fotografia Ferran Freixa #466,

offical photographer for the Barcelona Triangle.

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/virgin_cherries_sutton.html

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(1987) Yellow/Gold/Mauve

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain

Size: 93inches by 110inches, or apx. 236 cm by 286 cm ?, show here unstretched and unframed.

Materials: Golden Acrylic on cotton canvas

Collection of: BFA, or Barcelona Fine Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain.

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/yellow_barcelona_sutton.html

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(1987) Blue Goya Gaudi

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain-Two Combined Sources of Inspiration:

Goya represented by his portrait of the Duchess of Alba. Plus the ironwork on the front gates of Palua Guell by Gaudi, used in the upper left side of the painting.

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/blue_goya_gaudi.html

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(1987) Virgin of Black and Gold Spots

or alternate title:

Pulpo en su mismo tinto [English is; "Octopus in it's own ink"]

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain

May, 1987

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/virgin_black_sutton.html

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(1987) Brown Green Breda

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/brown_barcelona_sutton.html

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(1987) GREEN GOYA [1] - DRESS IMAGINED AS IF FLESH

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain- plus Goya paintings as inspiration:

GOYA- Gabriela Palafox y Portocarrero, Marquesa de Lazan,size: 193 cm x 115 cm,Collection: Casa de Alba, Spain

May, 17, 18 TO 25 1987

Size: 90 inches by 115 inches, or cm by cm,

Inventory #87B/05/17,18, TO 25

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/green_goya1_sutton.html

&http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/green_goya_2_sutton.html

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(1987) Lace & Blue & Gold Multi Splash

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/blue_barcelona_sutton.html

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(1987) Titian Red Blue Gold

Painted during the BarcelonaTriangleWorkshop in Barcelona, Spain - Plus photographs

http://www.carolsutton.net/barcelona/red_barcelona_sutton.html

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Ant on a Gaudi-like stalk

Lily of the valley
bells sounds of paradise
An ant climbs your
Gaudi-like stalk
The bee-part of his
brain thinks of the
fresh smell of dirt.

I once interviewed
an ant that climbed
up the side of an
original Gaudi building
back in 1909
I asked the Barcelona ant,
“If it felt the same as
climbing a lily of
the valley stalk?”

Barcelona Triangle Paintings by Carol Sutton

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