The plenary session of the Barcelona City Council has unanimously accepted, “and for the primary time within the historical past” of the town, a murals as fee of a municipal tax, as reported in a press release.
It is a mirror attributed to Antonio Gaudí with a price of 60,000 euros that can be used for the partial fee of the liquidation of the municipal capital positive aspects of Isabel Ferran Sanahuja for the inheritance of Casa Sayrach, the modernist property positioned at Avenida Diagonal 423, nook with Enric Granados road.
Attributed to Gaudi
The piece that the consistory has accepted as a bargaining chip is a body with a stucco-carved mirror gilded with gold leaf. An object that was mass-produced primarily based on a Gaudí idea or mannequin. Its first proprietor might have been the architect Manuel Sayrach i Carreras (1886-1937), who had a fruitful relationship with Gaudí. According to the documentation offered, this mirror comes from the principle ground of the Casa Milà constructing in Barcelona, La Pedrera, and would have been exhibited in Paris and within the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.
To a museum in Barcelona
The Institute of Culture issued a positive report for the acceptance of the modernist piece. The council needs Gaudí’s mirror to turn into a part of the collections of a metropolis museum such because the MNAC or the Design Museum, which have already proven their curiosity.