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A Catalogue Raisonné
(in progress)
Title: Curiosidad (Curiosity)**
Series: Madrid Prints
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Date: C. 1934***
Medium: Drypoint, possibly including some etching****
Edition: 8 impressions of which at least 6 are numbered and one unnumbered*****
Dimensions: 275 x 360 mm. (10 7/8 x 14 3/16 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:
Couples
Women (Studies of)/Nudes
*Catalogue Entry #: For numbering used in other catalogues, see below.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue # = 24.
**Title:
- The Spanish title appears in the artist's hand in pencil on at least one impression, l.l.
- 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 (1934) also uses the title "Curiosidad."
- BNE uses the title "Desnudo" ("nude"), which is handwritten in pencil, verso (no hand specified), on their impression.
- The English "Curiosity" (above) appears on no observed impression and is our translation.
***Date: No date appears on any of the observed impressions of this print. The BNE catalogue entry for this print indicates "1934." 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: Quintanilla and his printer were inconsistent in their manner of numbering.
- The BNE catalogue entry for its impression of this print states a pulling of 8 impressions ("Tirada de 8 ejemplares").
- An impression from the Hemingway Collection is inscribed below the plate mark, l.l. "no 6" (See fig.1 below).
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 Figs. 1-2 below.)
Fig. 1Fig. 2
The smudging in the title (above right) derives from staining on the paper.For further discussion of editions and numbering, visit the Edition section of "Using This Catalogue Raisonné."