JOSÉ GUTIÉRREZ SOLANA

(1886 / 1945)

JOSE GUTIERREZ SOLANA Madrid (1886 / 1945) "The Chinese Table", c. 1927

Oil on canvas Signed in the lower right corner. Titled and signed on the frame on the back. Labels on the back: -"18th Venice International Biennial Art Exhibition 1932" - "Christie's London 2004" -"La España Artistica" articles for Bellas Artes, Macarron, Madrid. Provenance: -Emilio Peña, Director of the Galeria Estilo in Madrid and Solana's gallery owner. -Emilio Peña's Vda. Collection, Madrid -Heller Gallery, Madrid -Christie's, London 2004 -Private collection, Madrid BIBLIOGRAPHY -AA.VV; Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter, Editorial Espasa-Calpe, SA Madrid, 1936 (plate LXXXVII). -L. Alonso; J. Solana. Study and cataloguing of his work. In the cat. Jose Solana Exhibition-Tribute, Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid, 1985 (page 197, cat. no. 161). -J. L. Barrio Garay; Jose Gutierrez Solana, London. New York, 1978 (Fig. 141). -M. Sanchez Camargo; Biography of Solana, Madrid, 1945 (plate no. 70). -M. Sanchez Camargo; Solana. Painting and drawings, Cariatide Collection, Afrodisio Aguado Publishing House, Madrid, 1953 (plate no. 13). -M. Sanchez Camargo; Solana. Life and painting. Turus Publishing House, Madrid, 1962 (plate no. 63). - Luis Caruncho Amat, "J. Solana: Exhibition-Tribute and Study and Cataloguing of his Work", Ed. Ayuntamiento de Madrid; p. 197, no. P.16 - Jose Gutierrez Solana, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2004. (color rep. p. 168 of the catalogue). Exhibitions: - Pittsburgh, Twenty-Sixth International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, cat. no. 378 (Appears under the title Still life), 1927. - Madrid, Jose Gutierrez Solana, Museum of Modern Art, exp. no. 24, 1929. - New York, Exposition American and European Artist, Brooklyn Museum, cat. no. 24, 1929. - Chicago, cat. no. Cat. No. 43, 1932. - Oslo, Jose Gutierrez Solana, Kunstforeningen, cat. no. 45, 1933. - Paris, Jose Gutierrez Solana, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, cat. no. 45, 1938. - Madrid, Jose Solana Tribute Exhibition, Conde Duque Cultural Centre, 1985; Cat. No. 161. - Madrid, Jose Gutierrez Solana, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2004. Measurements: 142 x 107 cm