JULIO GALÁN | Retrato de Sofía

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Arte Actual Mexicano Galería, Monterrey
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992

Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, September 1993 - April 1994 Julio Galán: exposición retrospectiva
Miami, Center of Fine Arts, Julio Galán, 1994 
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, Melancolía, April - July 2017, illustrated n.p.

Luis Mario Schneider, Et Al., Julio Galán, Mexico City 1993, no. 87, pp. 26 and 255, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. This work is composed of two canvases, which are each unlined and well-stretched. They are attached to one another on the reverse with metal brackets. The colors are vibrant, and the media layer is stable overall. A thin intermittent band of media loss and wear is present along each of the extreme edges of the canvas. A few faint intermittent surface spot accretions are scattered in the lower quadrants. A few minor pinpoint spots of media loss are present throughout. Under ultraviolet light examination, fluorescence occurs, due to the media selected by the artist.
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"Sofía is my favorite sister, I've painted a few portraits of her...We always played together, we're nearly the same age, the others were older... I was a bit of a loner, but she always supported and believed in me. When I began to paint she told me: 'You are going to be a painter, everything that you don't want, you're going to give to me. Finish the race, because they're demanding it of you, and it'll take some weight off of your shoulders, but don't stop painting, you are a great painter.'"  Julio Galán, quoted in Luis Mario Schneider et al., Julio Galán, Mexico City 1993, p. 19-20