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About the Artist
Joan Llaverias was a Catalan illustrator and painter active at the turn of the 20th century, celebrated for crisp draftsmanship and a keen eye for modern life. Working across magazines, book illustration, and poster design, he helped shape Barcelona’s graphic culture during an era when public events and leisure became subjects worthy of decorative art.
This 1902 poster sits naturally within the broader world of early modern advertising and Mediterranean imagery, where clarity, elegance, and instant legibility mattered as much as atmosphere.
The Artwork
Real Club de Barcelona evokes a moment when sailing was both sport and social ritual, reflecting the city’s growing confidence as a cosmopolitan port. Produced as a promotional poster for the club, it signals prestige through maritime pageantry and the public spectacle of a regatta, where participants and spectators share the same coastal stage.
In early 1900s Barcelona, modern associations and clubs helped define a new urban identity rooted in international exchange and seaside culture. For collectors of Barcelona wall art, this vintage print offers a direct link to that optimistic, outward-looking moment.
Style & Characteristics
The composition reads at a glance, balancing open water and sky with animated human presence and sail forms that create rhythm across the surface. Llaverias uses confident outlines and flat, poster-ready shapes, typical of early 20th-century lithographic design, while reserving detail for gestures and key accents.
A coastal palette of blues and sun-warmed light tones is punctuated by crisp whites and small, vivid notes of red and yellow. The overall mood is breezy and refined, making it an enduring piece of sea and ocean wall decor with genuine period character.
In Interior Design
This sailing scene poster works beautifully in a living room, entryway, study, or dining space where you want calm movement and a cultured travel-memory feel. It pairs naturally with light woods, linen textures, and ceramics, and it also sharpens contemporary interiors by adding a clean graphic focal point.
For cohesive home decor, echo its maritime blues with soft whites and sand-like neutrals, or lean into Mediterranean accents with warmer reds and yellows. It also fits a gallery wall alongside blue tone art prints and other classic coastal imagery.