El Periodico de Catalunya reported an unusual and disturbing fact for lovers of culture and artistic legacy has been discovered in the Encants, casually, that Library painter and poet Albert Rafols-Casamada and painter Maria Girona was scattered by the famous Barcelona instead of selling antiques at bargain prices.
The Government met the late and casually: Joan Pinyol, Professor of Literature, on Friday met with this accident and bitterly denounced social networks. Personal letters, drawings, books, notes, etc., they were lying on the ground like ordinary clippings with the fish wrapped.
Until the death of the former in 2009, Ràfols and Girona lived in his apartment in the Avinguda de Argentina. Recently she died, and four months later, his heirs said floor emptied. At the finish in the Encants, both cultural material has been undersold, by weight. They have had several different buyers portions thereof, and to read the complaint of Pinyol in the networks, the seller of old books Enric Palamitjavila bought what remained for sale.
Shortly after he reached Eugènia Serra, Director Library of Catalonia I had known what was going on and wanted to know what he could do, hurriedly sent by the Minister of Culture Ferran Mascarell. Fortunately, there is still a lot of material sold, and try to talk to Palamitjavila to give them books purchased.
El Periodico de Catalunya report illustrates the two-page photos as the site of the Encants has all the books of Ràfols scattered on the floor, his framed drawing and all kinds of objects placed in any way, without any conservation measure or security, as is usual in these outlets balance or second hand. The photos are Pinyol Facebook.
When the floor of the artist emptied, the seller of the Encants acquired all for just € 2,000 at auction. But the indignation of people in the Catalan culture has been resounding. Pinyol and not think you can “build a new country” if it is so bad our cultural heritage. He met the couple and made you mourn what he saw: “I am ashamed of being Catalan and have the cultural leaders who have”
Ràfols and Girona. created a foundation to manage their cultural heritage when they no longer live in 2000 at Capellades, but did not work or did not find any interest of the Catalan government, which had no seat or nothing. The pictures of him are safe in which was his studio and the Foundation Parramon of Ventalló. But are their roles which have run an unfortunate fate.
Ferran Mascarell is also moved by the case, recalling that the MNAC has contacted several times with the heirs to preserve the legacy, and now have moved urgently to recover what they can, the material so suddenly have dispersed.
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