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A Catalogue Raisonné
(in progress)
Title: Calle de Madrid [4] (Madrid Street)**
Series: Madrid Prints
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Date: C. 1934***
Medium: Drypoint and Etching****
Edition: at least 6 numbered impressions and at least one unnumbered impression*****
Dimensions: 360 x 280 mm (12 3/16 x 11 in.)
Printer: Adolfo Ruperez
Paper: Wove with Arches watermark
Signature: Initialed in the plate l.r. and, typically, signed in pencil, l.r., beneath the plate mark.
Public collections holding this print: BNE
Topic galleries for this print:
Couples
Street Scenes
*Catalogue Entry #: For numbering used in other catalogues, see below.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue # = 6.
**Title:
- Calle de Madrid (Madrid Street), which is the title of several of the prints in this series, is inscribed in the artist's hand just under the plate mark, l.l., on at least one impression (See below, Fig. 1.)
- 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 "[4]" following the title does not appear on any impression, but is this catalogue's method of distinguishing among five works all bearing the title "Calle de Madrid."
- A second title, Parke Oriente Madrid (Eastern Park Madrid), appears in an undetermined hand on the mat, l.r., (not shown) -- probably added for the AAA exhibition of 1939 -- of an impression that is otherwise untitled.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue also uses Calle de Madrid.
- The English title, "Madrid Street" used here is our translations and does not appear on any known impression.
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***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 earnest, 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."
- For further 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.
- One observed impressions is inscribed "n° 5," l.l. (See Fig. 2 above.)
- Another is inscribed "n° 6" (not shown), 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.)