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Darío de Regoyos Ribadesella 1857-Barcelona 1913
Description
- Darío de Regoyos
- Une place à Grenade
signed D. de Regoyos lower right; signed and titled Une Place à Grenade on the reverse
oil on canvas
- 61 by 50cm., 24 by 19½in.
Provenance
Purchased by the present owner from the above in 1980
Exhibited
Bilbao, Salón Delclaux, Darío de Regoyos, 1911
Barcelona, Galería Dalmau, Darío de Regoyos, 1913
Madrid, Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, Darío de Regoyos, 2002-2003, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Regoyos moved from Bilbao to Grenada in 1910 seeking its more temperate climate to recuperate from a protracted illness. He had previously visited some years earlier during his tour of Spain with the Belgian artists' collective L'Essor and his 1888 trip to the city with the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren. During this third sojourn in Grenada which ended in April 1911, Regoyos completed some thirty oils.
Painted on a crisp sunny morning in early spring from an elevated position, in the present work leaves are begining to appear on the branches of the trees, while snow still rests on the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Figures criss-cross the open space of the square; to the left in the background soldiers stand in front of the Guardia Civil headquarters; in the foreground a line of horse-drawn carriages stands by.
From the 1890s, the influence of Belgian and French Post-Impressionists became ever more present in Regoyos' work. As in the present work, Regoyos' fondness for Spain found expression in the lyrical and emotive enthusiasm with which he created quintessential vignettes of everyday Spanish life.
We are grateful to Juan San Nicolás for his assistance in cataloguing this work.