Still Life with Pomegranate - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

Still Life with Pomegranate

Aquerreta, Juan José

Pamplona, 04/11/1946

Oil on canvas

46 x 53.3 cm

aquerreta (bottom right hand corner)

2001

First decade of the 21st century

02/70

Acquired in 2002

Still Life with Pomegranate returns to a regular theme, abandoned for some years and revived in the mid-'80s. Using a refined formal treatment and a limited palette, the artist sets the reality of everyday objects in an atmosphere bordering on the metaphysical. (Marta García Maruri)

Selected bibliography

Adquisiciones 02/07 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2007. pp. 104-105, n° cat. 43.
Guía Artistas Vascos. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2008. pp. 166-167.
Gida Euskal Artistak. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Eder Museoa, 2008. pp. 166-167.
Guide Basque Artists. Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2012. pp. 166-167, n° cat. 92c.
Viar, Javier. Historia del arte vasco : de la Guerra Civil a nuestros días, 1936-2016. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2017. pp. 535-536, il.
Bilboko Museoaren alfabetoa = El alfabeto del Museo de Bilbao = The alphabet of the Bilbao Museum = L'alphabet du Musée de Bilbao [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2018. pp. 251, 257, n° cat. 142.
Después del 68 : arte y prácticas artísticas en el País Vasco, 1968-2018 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2018. p. 433.