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Portrait or Little Lady in Green
Olasagasti, Jesús
San Sebastián, 20/12/1907-San Sebastián, 05/08/1955
Oil on canvas
80 x 61 cm
J. Olasagasti (bottom right hand corner)
1931
Second quarter of the 20th century
97/158
Acquired in 1997
In the early 1930s, Olasagasti, encouraged by the passing interest of some of the colleagues from his generation in Surrealism, produced several works, including Portrait or Little Green Lady, where the world of dreams becomes present. Here, the formal rotundity of the other two canvases gives way to freer drawing and a sketchy, monochrome background. [Miriam Alzuri] [Marta García Maruri]
Selected bibliography
- Entre la figuración y la abstracción : arte contemporáneo en las colecciones del Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao [Cat. exp.]. Pamplona, Museo de Navarra, 1999. pp. 68-69.
- López de Sosoaga, María Jesús. Jesús Olasagasti 1907-1955 [Cat. exp.]. Donostia-San Sebastán, Fundación Kutxa, 2007. pp. 27, 88.
- Guía Artistas Vascos. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2008. pp. 116-117.
- Gida Euskal Artistak. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Eder Museoa, 2008. pp. 116-117.
- Guide Basque Artists. Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2012. pp. 116-117, n° cat. 61c.
- 1925-1936 : una modernidad singular, arte nuevo alrededor de San Sebastián = Modernitate bakan bat, arte berria donostiaren inguruan [Cat. exp.]. Madrid, San Telmo Museoa ; La Fabrica, 2016. pp. 110-111, il.