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Joaquim Mir y Trinxet was a Spanish 19th Century painter who was born in 1873. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Singer Laren have featured Joaquim Mir y Trinxet's work in the past.Joaquim Mir y Trinxet's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 106 USD to 383,924 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 383,924 USD for Puerto de Tarragona (Port of Tarragona), sold at Christie's London in 2007. In the past 12 months, their artworks have averaged 1,573 USD.Joaquim Mir y Trinxet has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Fine Art Connoisseur and The Arts Desk. The most recent article is Colnaghi Presents New Exhibition Dedicated to Spanish Modernists Working in Belle Époque Paris written for ArtDaily in October 2022. The artist died in 1940.

Artist's alternative names: Joaquim Mir, Joaquín Mir, Joaquin Mir Trinxet

Joaquim Mir Trinxet was a Spanish landscape artist who led in the post-modernism era. Born on January 6, 1872, in Barcelona to a wealthy textile family, Mir Trinxet began his artistic journey at the Graner Academy. Unlike many artists at that time who traveled to Paris to further their art education, he continued on to attend The School of Fine Art in his home town of Barcelona. Many attribute the uniqueness and nonconformity of his painting style to his independence and solitary life, much unlike the other artists of that time period.

His first exhibition was in 1901 and received positive but confused reviews as his work was full of color but lacking form; it was unclear what the landscape depicted. Following a void in paintings from 1905 until early 1910 due to an accident, Joaquim Mir Trinxet’s art began to take on an abstract composition with bright vibrant colors that mimicked nature with a heightened color palette. He began to depict the landscapes through his own interpretation and his own reality with positive reviews during his later exhibitio

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