Qualla: Segrelles Museum https://qualla.com/segrelles-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Segrelles Museum https://qualla.com/segrelles-museum Segrelles Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/segrelles-museum/ He drew the circles of Dante's hell and the hidden interior of the human body, the far reaches of the cosmos and the fever-dreams of Edgar Allan Poe. In New York, admirers so loved the deep, glowing blue of his skies that they gave it his name: the Segrelles Blue. And then, at the height of a career that had carried him from Valencia to Barcelona to Manhattan, Josep Segrelles went home to a small town in the Valencian hills and built himself a house he never wanted to leave. That house, in Albaida, is now his museum.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/s/segrelles-museum-wp/eyzs-segrelles-museum-the-segrelles-blue.mp3 0:06 3 full Segrelles Museum: The House He Designed for Himself https://qualla.com/segrelles-museum/ In 1932 he came back to Albaida for good. Then, working from designs he had drawn up during his years in the United States, he began in 1949 to build the house that would become his museum. Here he lived and painted until his death on 3 March 1969, a fortnight short of his eighty...

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