The Maricel Museum is a museum located in the centre of

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; reopened after a major refurbishment in 2015. The Maricel Museum is part of the

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In 1969, the Barcelona Provincial Corporation bought the building of Maricel de Mar to house the heterogeneous collection belonging to Doctor Jesús Pérez-Rosales (Manila, 1896-Barcelona, 1989), a well known gynaecologist and enthusiastic collector. A year later the Museu Maricel was inaugurated. Made up of more than 3 000 items of varying origin, the collection includes Romanesque murals (like the ''Christ Pantocrator from Santa Maria de Cap d'Aran'', dated in the twelfth century), examples of Gothic painting on wood (amongst them two pieces from the altarpiece of Sant Pere de Cubells), Renaissance carvings and altarpieces, ''Modernista and Noucentista'' sculptures by

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(''Distress''),

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''head of Child Crying'',

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(''Rest, Dawn and Gypsy Child''),

Josep Clarà Josep Clarà i Ayats (16 December 1878 – 4 November 1958) was a Spanish sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Biography Clarà was born in Olot, Girona, Catalonia (Spain) i ...

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and Pablo Gargallo (''The Reaper''), six allegorical murals by Josep M. Sert on the

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, along with numerous pictures and items of furniture, precious metal, ceramics and porcelain. Pere Serra

Since 1995 the Museu Maricel has also housed the "Vila de Sitges" Collection of art, which occupies several rooms on the second floor. In them can be seen some fifty works by Sitges artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and by others who had close links with the town during the same period. This art collection takes the visitor on an evocative tour of the last two centuries of Catalan painting, from

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(born in Sitges in 1809) to Pere Pruna (who spent long periods here during the 1940s and 1950s). Càndid Duran

The Luminist School of Sitges, which provided a bridge between Marià Fortuny and the ''Modernistes'', is amply represented, with items by Felip Masó (amongst them the emblematic ''Saint Bartholomew Procession''),

Joaquim de Miró Joaquim de Miró y Argenter (February 3 , 1849 – February 18, 1914, in Sitges) was a Spanish painter, best known for his luminist landscape paintings, such as ''La Malvasia'' (1895) which have been preserved by the Cau Ferrat Museum Cau Fe ...

(''The Malvasia Harvest''), Josep Batlle i Amell,

Arcadi Mas i Fondevila Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, or Fontdevila (12 November 1852 in Barcelona – 31 January 1934 in Sitges), was a Catalan painter and graphic artist. Biography He was the son of a tailor. His father recognized his artistic talent at an early age ...

(''The Corpus Christi Procession in Sitges''), Joan Roig i Soler and

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. There are also several works by Santiago Rusiñol, in particular ''Twilight'', painted in Biniaraix (Majorca), and the portraits of local figures in Sitges such as

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and ''Lluís Magrans''. There is an exceptional portrait by

Ramon Casas Ramon Casas i Carbó (; 4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and ...

of Charles Deering, the man who had the Maricel complex built at the beginning of the twentieth century. ''Maternity'', by the Sitges painter

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, opens the room devoted to ''Noucentisme'', where one can also see canvases and drawings by

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and Josep M. Llopis de Casades, amongst others. The exhibition is completed with items by

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(''Girl in Mourning''), Guillem Bergnes (''Rocks of Sant Sebastià''), Alfred Sisquella and Pere Pruna (mentioned above). Adjoining the "Vila de Sitges" Collection of Art is the Collection on Maritime themes put together by Emerencià Roig i Raventós (Sitges, 1881-Barcelona), 19359 and donated by his brother to Sitges Town Hall. Roig was an important specialist in maritime themes and the author of books like ''La pesca a Catalunya'' (1926), ''La marina catalana del vuit-cents'' (1929) and ''Sitges del nostres avis'' (1934). The collection consist of a variety of models and miniature boats, drawings and engravings, maps, nautical instruments (sextants, compasses, etc.) and fishing tackle (lobster pots, long lines, hooks, needles for mending nets, etc.), which were once used by fishermen the length of the Catalan coast.

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