30 Works, November 9th. is Pere Creixams’ day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #232
Nov 9, 2021
Reclining Woman
Oil on canvas
90x147 cm.
Private collection
The only son of a poor family, Pere Creixams was born on 9 November 1893 in Barcelona: «I come out of the pavement, the Mediterranean pavement…». In 1906, following the death of his father, he lived with his mother. He took on a series of odd jobs and later became a printer. In the evenings, he attended a mixed, secular school La Escuela Moderna founded in 1901 by the Catalan anarchist Francisco Ferrer, whose libertarian pedagogy had an enormous impact throughout Europe. Créixams said he had learned to read from «red and anarchist books»…