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A Catalogue Raisonné
(in progress)
Title: Gitanerias (Wheedlers)**
Series: Madrid Prints
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Date: 1931-34***
Medium: Drypoint, possibly including some etching****
Edition: 8 numbered impressions plus at least 1 unnumbered impression *****
Dimensions: 360 x 275 mm. (14 3/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Printer: Adolfo Ruperez
Paper: Wove with Arches watermark
Signature: Typically signed in pencil, l.r., beneath the plate mark.******
Public collections holding this print: BNE
Topic galleries for this print:
1. Men (studies of)
2. Scenes Featuring Animals
3. Street Scenes
*Catalogue Entry #: For numbering used in other catalogues, see below.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue # = 25
**Title:
- The Spanish title, Gitanerias, appears in the artist's hand in pencil on at least one impression beneath the plate mark, l.l. (See Fig.1 below.)
- The only known impressions bearing titles in the artist's hand for Madrid Series prints are in the Hemingway Collection and carry their titles l.l. where the numbering normally appears.
- The Pierre Matisse catalogues also both use "Giteranias."
- The BNE uses "[Giteranias.]"
- Gitanerias has various possible translations into English. The singular, "gitaneria" means "gypsy band" but can also carry the meaning of "wheedling" or "cajoling." The Catalogue Raisonné has settled on "Wheedlers."
- Burdett (277) uses "Gypsies."
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***Date: No date appears on any of the observed impressions of this print. Of the dates that appear on works in the Hemingway Collection, which includes this print, none is earlier than 1931 and none later than 1934. Quintanilla started making drypoints, in fact prints in general, with Adolfo Ruperez, the printer of all the prints in the Madrid Series, sometime after the artist's return to Madrid in 1929. (See Biographical Chronology.)
- The one known exception to the range of dates specified in the paragraph just above is entry # I.
****Medium: A final determination for the medium has not been made.
- For a discussion of the factors involved, visit the "Medium" section of "Using This Catalogue Raisonné."
****Edition:
- The BNE impression is inscribed "n° 1 de 8 pruebas" (number 1 of 8 proofs).
- Ruperez typically printed ten or fewer (most commonly 7-10) of Quintanilla's Madrid Series prints, often including at least one unnumbered impression outside the edition.
- The Hemingway Collection typically includes one unnumbered impression bearing a title instead of the number, l.l. (See Fig. 1 above.)
******Signature:
