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A Catalogue Raisonné
(in progress)
Full Entry Catalogue
Title: Untitled [The Girl from Extremadura]**
Series: Madrid prints
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Date: 1933**
Medium: Drypoint, possibly including some etching***
Edition: 8 numbered impressions plus at least one unnumbered impression****
Dimensions: 360 x 280 mm. (14 3/16 x 11 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:
Interiors (Domestic)
Women (Studies of)
Notes
*Catalogue Entry #: For numbering used in other catalogues, see below.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue # = 28.
- Quintanilla generally inscribed the titles of his prints just below the image, lower left. In that place on one impression of this print (the one from the Hemingway Collection) he wrote, : “La trajimos a Madrid con Ernesto. Es la chica de extremadura [sic] que va servir. 1933” (“We brought her to Madrid with Ernesto. She’s the girl from Extremadura† who will be a servant. 1933”) (See Fig. 1 below.)
- According to Paul Quintanilla, the artist's son and biographer, Ernesto is almost certainly Quintanilla's close friend, Ernest Hemingway, whom he always called "Ernesto." In corrobortion, Hemingway, in his preface to the Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue, refers to a hunting trip "this time last year when we [he and Quintanilla] were in Extremadura after wild boar." "Last year" would have been 1933, the date of the print.
This inscription seems more an annotation on the subject matter than a title per se. As no other observed impressions bears, in the artist's hand, what is more clearly a title, the catalogue raisonné leaves this print untitled.
†Extremadura is an area in western Spain bordering on Portugal to the west and Castile-la Mancha to the east. It is noted for its wildlife. - The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue uses "Viajera de Castilla." (traveler from Castile)
- BNE uses "[Viajera de Castilla]."
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***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 catalogue states their impression is inscribed in pencil, "n°1 de 8 preubas" (Number 1 of 8 proofs).
- One observed impression is inscribed below the plate mark, l.l. "n° 3." (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 (or inscription) instead of the number, l.l. (See Fig. 1 above.)