Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in an Automobile

Created in 1901, Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu in an Automobile depicts the artist in the driver’s seat of a cherry red convertible accompanied by fellow artist and partner-in-crime, Pere Romeu. The painting was the most prominent work displayed in their legendary Barcelona bar, Els Quatre Gats—a hotspot for their arty peers that was modeled after Le Chat Noir in Paris—and was actually a very 20th century update on an earlier work, in which our same two friends rode a tandem bicycle.