Louis Quintanilla Drypoint: "Los soldotitos*" ("The Little Soldiers")

*Catalogue Entry #: For numbering used in other catalogues, see below.

The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue # = 27.
The Universidad de Cantabria "Luis Quintanilla" catalogue # = 2

The Spanish title, La soldaditos (The Little Soldiers), 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 English "The Little Soldiers" is our translation of Quintanilla's title and does not appear on any impression.

MNCARS use Melancolía.

The Universidad de Cantabria exhibition catalogue "Luis Quintanilla" and FBA use "Melancolía (Malinconia) [Sic]"

On another impression, the English title, “Melancholy” appears at the bottom of the sheet in an undetermined hand, probably created for The AAA exhibition of 1939 "Luis Quintanilla."

The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue uses the Spanish “Calle de Madrid” (Madrid Street).

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

***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 FBA impression is inscribed n° 6, l.l.

Another observed impression is annotated, "n°. 5," l.l. (See Fig. 2 above.)

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.)

Detail:

Reproduced in: "Luis Quintanilla" (Universidad de Cantabria) (39)