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A Catalogue Raisonné
(in progress)
Title: El botijo (The Earthen Jug)**
Series: Madrid Prints
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Date: 1934***
Medium: Drypoint, possibly including some etching****
Edition: At least 6 numbered impressions and at least one unnumbered impression*****
Dimensions: 280 x 175 mm. (11 1/16 x 6 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: Currently Unknown
Topic galleries for this print:
Women (Studies of)
*Catalogue Entry #: For numbering used in other catalogues, see below.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue # =17.
**Title:
- The Spanish title, El Botijo (The Earthen Jug), 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 Gallery Catalogue uses the title "Moza Del Botijo" ("Girl with an Earthen Jug").
Fig. 1
***Date: Etched in the plate upper left of image on all impressions. (See Fig. 2 below.)
Fig. 2
****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 highest observed numbered impression is annotated "no 6", l.l.
- Ruperez typically printed ten or fewer (most commonly 7-10) of Quintanilla's Madrid Series prints, often including at least one or more unnumbered impressions. (No record exists of more than two unnumbered impressions of any of the Madrid prints.)
- The Hemingway Collection typically includes one unnumbered impression bearing a title instead of the number, l.l. (See Fig. 1 above.)
Reproduced in: "Luis Quintanilla" [Associated American Artists (AAA) exhibition catalogue] (For more about Quintanilla and AAA, click here.)