A Catalan Vision of Modern Art Josep de Togores Llach stands as a profound, if sometimes overlooked, pillar of the Catalan avant-garde, a painter whose life and work mirrored the turbulent transitions of early twentieth-century Europe. Born in 1893 in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, into a family of significant social standing, his early years were marked by both privilege and personal hardship. The son of Josep de Togores y Muntades—a…