JULIO ROMERO DE TORRES | La 'Cantaora', Retrato de Sara Secades (The 'Singer', Sara Secades)

Acquired by the present owner in 2011

Francisco Caravaca, 'El pintor Romero de Torres', in Heraldo de Madrid, Madrid, 20 November 1927, p. 8, illustrated (as La 'Cantaora')

Mercedes Valverde Candil, 'Sara Secades, modelo de Julio Romero', in Córdoba en Mayo, 2003

Painted circa 1926-27.

Sara Secades was a famous Oviedo-born singer whose performances in Spanish theatres met with great success in early 1900s. A close friend of Romero de Torres, she appears in at least eighteen canvases by the artist.

This work is recorded in the Julio Romero de Torres Museum, Córdoba (no. 1/04) and in the photographic library of Spanish Historical Heritage at the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (no. 31626-B). 

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Mercedes Valverde.