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A Catalogue Raisonné
(in progress)
Title: Natureleza Muerta “El botas” (Still life “Congress boots”)**
Series: Madrid Prints
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Date: 1934***
Medium: Drypoint, possibly including some etching****
Edition: At least 6 numbered impressions and at least 2 unnumbered impressions****
Dimensions: : 280 x 175 mm. (11 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: BNE
Topic galleries for this print:
Still Lifes
*Catalogue Entry #: For numbering used in other catalogues, see below.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue # = 35.
**Title:
- The Spanish title, Natureleza Muerta "El botas," 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.
- “Botas” was the disparaging nickname that was given to Niceto Alcalá Zamora, President of the Spanish Republic.
- BNE uses the title "[Botas/1934]"
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue (1934) uses the title Soledad (Solitude).
- The English version of the title above, Still life “Congress boots”, is our translation and doesn't appear on any observed impression.
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***Date: The date (1934) is engraved in the plate, u.l. (See Fig. 2.) It also appears in pencil just below the title, l.l., on the impression from both the BNE and the Hemingway Collection. A case could be made that this date is intended as part of the title, suggesting that this is a comment on Zamora at a particular time.
****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:
- An observed impression is inscribed "n° 6," l.l.
- 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.)
- The BNE impression is unnumbered.
Reproduced In: "Luis Quintanilla" Associated American Artists