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A Catalogue Raisonné
(in progress)
Title: Deseos (Desire)*
Series: Madrid Prints
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Date: C. 34***
Medium: Drypoint and etching****
Edition: 7 numbered impressions and, most likely, one unnumbered impression*****
Dimensions: 280 x 360 mm (11 x 14 1/16 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; FBA
Topic galleries for this print:
Women (studies of)/Nudes
*Catalogue Entry #: For numbering used in other catalogues, see below.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue # =19.
- The Universidad de Cantabria "Luis Quintanilla" catalogue # = 10
**Title:
- The Spanish title, Deseos, appears in the artist's hand in pencil on at least one unnumbered impression, (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.
- The Pierre Matisse Gallery Catalogue (1934) also uses the title "Deseos."
- BNE uses the title "Desnudo" ("nude"), which is handwritten in pencil, verso (no hand specified), on their impression.
- The 2005 Universidad de Cantabria exhibition catalogue "Luis Quintanilla" and FBA use the title "Curiosos" ("Curiosity").
- The English version of the title, "Desire", is our translation and doesn't appear on any observed impression.
Fig. 1.
fig. 2
***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: 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.
- At least one impression is annotated below the plate mark, l.l., "7 - P. n° 1"; p=prueba (proof) (See Fig. 2 above.).
- The BNE catalogue specifies a pulling of eight impressions ("Tirada de 8 ejemplares").
- 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.)
- 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.)