Portrait or Little Lady in Green - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

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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.