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oil on board
49.5 x 61 cm
49.5 x 61 cm
signed lower right: JGallegos
In an important period frame.
Specialist Notes
In 1880 the Spanish painter decided to settle in Rome, moved by the evident successes that his Iberian peers were ringing in the peninsula, in the wake of Marià Fortuny y Marsal who had just disappeared in the capital in 1874. Italy, also for José Gallegos, became a favorite land, so much so that in 1887 he married the Milanese Giuseppina Trelanzi, who gave him four children, then died prematurely in 1897. In these years, Gallegos gave life to his most characteristic production, lit by references to neo-seventeenth-century Spanish painting , much loved by collectors in Europe and beyond the ocean, with a taste for an involved narration, and chromatically and in customs and traditions. -goyesca - were the painter's favorite themes, but this Flamenco! represents a work-manifesto and which we present here for the first time ever to the public.
So much was firm the link c on Italy which, despite the numerous laurels at the international exhibitions of the time (Berlin, Munich, Paris, London) and the subsequent marriage to the English Constance Harding, decided to buy a villa in Nettuno, where she regularly stayed every summer; on one of these occasions, falling from a tree he was seriously injured, dying not long after and being buried right in the coastal city.
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