Full Entry Catalogue

Notes

The title/annotation in the artist's hand just under the plate mark, l.l., appears on at least one impression.
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.
On several occasions in the Madrid Series, Quintanilla's title is, by virtue of its length and content more like a descriptive annotation than a title, even though placed where his titles normally appear -- when they appear at all. As this is the only candidate for a title in the artist's hand, the catalogue uses it.
Our English translation reads, “This poor girl wanted some love and because of that she’s melancholy."
The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue uses the title "Melancolía" (melancholy, sadness).
The BNE catalogue uses "[Solitario]" (lonely) taken from BNE's original entry/registration data for the print, but not inscribed on the print.

Fig. 1

***Date: No date appears on any of the observed impressions of this print. The BNE catalogue states, "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: Although Burdett claims that Quintanilla did not mix his printmaking media and used solely drypoint, the BNE catalogue describes this print as "drypoint and etching." Examination of other prints from the Madrid Series also reveals the use of etching along with drypoint. Until further examination is made, the catalogue raisonné concurs with the BNE designation of "drypoint and etching."