LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

33.66 in. (85.50 cm.) (height) by 39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and inscribed 'Mongrell/Collera (Valencia)' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1941-1991. Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 120 Años de Pintura Española: 1810-1930, 1991, no. 406. Buenos Aires, Banco de la Nación Argentina, Pintura Española luminosa, 1972.

Literature:

'Notable Exposición Espanola', El Diario Espanol, Buenos Aires, 25 May 1917, p. 3. Plus Ultra, III, no. 26, Buenos Aires, June 1918, p. 28 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Justo Bou, Buenos Aires, 1917. Possibly acquired from the above by Arturo Uriarte y Piñiero, Buenos Aires, 1917. Bequeathed by the above to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1941. Returned to the descendants of the Uriarte y Piñiero family, 1991. Thence by descent to the present owner.