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Luis Quintanilla

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The Prints of Luis Quintanilla:
A Catalogue Raisonné
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Catalogue Entry #: 9*
Title: Chiquitita**
Series: Madrid Prints


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Date: 1934***

Medium: Drypoint, possibly including some etching****

Edition: Currently Unknown (CU)*****

Dimensions: 280 x 180 mm. (11 1/16 x 7 1/8 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: CU

Topic galleries for this print:
Women (Studies of)

Notes

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

**Title:

  • The Spanish title appears in the artist's hand in pencil on at least one impression, 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.
    • Chiquitita" is the diminutive for "chiquita" ("little girl")
  • The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue uses the title "Inocencia" ("Innocence").

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Fig. 1

***Date: Inscribed in pencil upper left of image on the impression from the Hemingway Collection. (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:

  • Only one impression, unnumbered, is known.
  • 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.)
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