DARÍO DE REGOYOS. Dibujo del nº3 de sus apuntes

DARÍO DE REGOYOS Y VALDÉS (Ribadesella, Asturias, 1857 - Barcelona, 1913).
"Landscape with houses".
Drawing taken from nº3 of his notes.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Certificated on the lower corner.
Measurements: 16 x 11.5 cm; 44,5 x 35 cm (frame).
Darío de Regoyos studied in Madrid at the San Fernando Academy (1878). Soon, pushed by his teacher Carlos de Haes and his musician friends, Enrique F. Arbós and Isaac Albéniz, he settled in Brussels (1879), where he became a pupil of Josep Quinaux. In the Belgian capital, he came across with E. Verhaeren, G. Rodenbach and M. Maeterlinck, a group of young creators who were forging the main Belgian cultural movement of the end of the century, in which the painter would play an eminent role. He was a member of the groups L'Essor (1881-83) and Les XX (1883-93). However, he never settled anywhere; even during his Belgian period he frequently returned to Spain. During the 1980s, he lived in the Basque Country, where he revitalised the already important local modern art school. In 1888 he accompanied the writer Verhaeren on a trip to Spain (he had already done so before with other Belgian companions), which would have been the seed of his famous "España negra" series, published in Barcelona in 1899. While during the 1880s he only took part in exhibitions in Belgium and Holland, in the 1890s he also exhibited in Paris, taking part regularly in the Salon des Indépendants. From these years, he also showed his work in Madrid, Munich and Barcelona. However, his work, which was marked by Impressionism of which he was one of the main proponents, was not well accepted in the more conventional circles. In Belgium, Regoyos was also linked to the society La Libre Esthétique from its inception (1894), an association that brought the legacy of artistic modernism to Belgium. In 1897 he held his first solo exhibition at the prominent Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris. The second, the following year, was held at Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona, where he was artistic director of the magazine "Luz". From 1900 the range of his exhibitions expanded, and his work was shown in Bilbao, Frankfurt, Berlin, The Hague, Venice, Bayonne, San Sebastián, London, Mexico City, Bordeaux and Buenos Aires, among other cities. At the beginning of the 20th century, Regoyos intensified his travels, living between Granada and Bilbao. In 1911 he settled in Barcelona, where he died two years later. He is represented in the Museo del Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña in Barcelona, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao and the Gerstenmaier Collection, among many other museums and institutions.