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Vallfogona Festival Design: The Grape Harvest

Antoni Gaudí · 1879

A 1879 pen-and-ink sketch by Gaudí designing a festival float for Vallfogona showing the grape harvest.

A signed festival design drawing by Gaudí from early in his career, showing his decorative imagination.

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Pen-and-ink sketch of a festival procession along a horizontal ground line: a large ornate wheeled float on the left topped with tall decorative spires, pulled by horses, followed by a row of walking figures and a mounted rider on the right. Signature in the lower right corner.
Antoni Gaudí, design for the Vallfogona festival float: The Grape Harvest, 1879.

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What it is

This pen-and-ink drawing was made by Antoni Gaudí in 1879 as a design for a festival parade in Vallfogona. It shows an ornate wheeled float with tall spires pulled by horses, followed by walking figures and a mounted rider, signed by Gaudí in the lower right.

Why it matters

Like its companion drawing of the olive harvest, this piece shows Gaudí working on small decorative commissions early in his career. The ornamental spires on the float hint at the inventive, sculptural style he would later bring to his architecture.

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  • What similarities can you spot between the float's decoration and Gaudí's later buildings?
  • Why do you think festivals needed designed floats like this one?
  • What does the signature tell you about how Gaudí saw this work, compared to his architecture?

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