LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

24.80 in. (63.00 cm.) (height) by 35.63 in. (90.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed J. Solana lower left; signed and titled on the stretcher

Exhibited:

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition of Paintings, 1936, no. 316; Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, José Gutiérrez Solana, 2004, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature:

Manuel Sánchez Camargo, Biografía de Solana, Madrid, 1945, p. 101; Manuel Sánchez Camargo, Solana, Vida y Pintura, Madrid, 1962, illustrated pp. 48-49 (as Máscaras en las afueras); Luis Alonso Fernández, J. Solana. Estudio y Catalogación de su obra, Madrid, 1985, p. 246, no. P. 262, catalogued & illustrated

Provenance:

Private collection, USA (purchased at the 1936 exhibition); Private collection, Spain; Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1991