Lot 84
  • 84

Rafael Zabaleta

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rafael Zabaleta
  • Campesina (Peasant Woman)
  • signed RZabaleta lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 100 by 81cm., 39½ by 32in.

Provenance

Acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1950s

Exhibited

Barcelona, Syra Gallery, 24 October - 6 November 1953, no. 18
Alexandria, Bienal del Mediterráneo, 1955
Venice, Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia, 1956, no. 755

Literature

Santiago Arbós Ballester, 'R. Zabaleta', in ABC, 30 June 1960, illustrated
A.M. Campoy, 'Zabaleta', in ABC, 31 March 1965, illustrated
Miguel Logroño, El color y el paisaje en R. Zabaleta, Madrid, April 1965, illustrated
Arriba, Manuel Gallego Morell, 'Zabaleta y D'Ors', Madrid, 4 April 1965, illustrated
María F. Guzmán, Catalogación de la producción zabaletiana, (2 vol.), Granada 1983, pp. 478-80, no. 296, catalogued
María F. Guzmán, La pintura de Rafael Zabaleta, Granada 1985, p. 385, no. 297, catalogued

Condition

Original canvas. Apart from a spot of retouching to a minor 1cm dent in a cloud in the upper-right, this work is in very good original condition, and is ready to hang. Held in a decorative gold-painted wooden frame.
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