Julio GONZALEZ
Women and Child with a Dog (Maternité au chien)
Date 1906
Epoque 20th century
Origine Spain
Medium Watercolour, Pencil, Gouache, Buff paper
Dimension 26.3 x 16.7 cm (10³/₈ x 6⁵/₈ inches)
Another scholar, Josette Gibert, notes of these early Maternités that, ‘They are so rarely evocative of joy, of serenity. Humble women, with sad faces, hold in their arms a child which, very often, they are not looking at. Poor country or suburban houses, surrounded by trees stripped of their leaves, this is the landscape that provides a setting for these scenes.’ González returned to the theme of the standing mother and child around 1925, working in his more schematic manner of drawing of this period, and he continued to treat the theme in his drawings until his death. These later drawings are, however, more obviously those of a sculptor.
In his catalogue raisonné of the artist’s early drawings, Tomàs Llorens has grouped the present sheet with one painting and sixteen other drawings by González, several of which are dated 1906. As he writes of this group, ‘González abandons the type of the mother with a child in her arms. The subjects now are varied scenes with mothers and children, treated with a more descriptive, anecdotal view and in a less formalized naturalistic style than the group of early 1906.’
Date: 1906
Epoque: 20th century
Origine: Spain
Medium: Watercolour, Pencil, Gouache, Buff paper
Signature: Signed juli at the right centre. Inscribed (by Roberta González) Julio Gonzalez / Maternité au Chien on the backing board.
Dimension: 26.3 x 16.7 cm (10³/₈ x 6⁵/₈ inches)
Provenance: The artist’s daughter, Roberta González, L’Hay–les-Roses
By descent to Carmen Martinez and Viviane Grimminger, Paris
Private collection, until 2011.
Literature: Luigi Mallé, Julio Gonzalez, exhibition catalogue, Turin, 1967, illustrated p.47, pl.2; Josette Gibert, Julio González dessins: les maternités, Paris, 1975, illustrated p.27 (where dated c.1904-1907); Tomàs Llorens Serra, Julio González: Catálogo general razonado de las pinturas, esculturas y dibujos, Vol.I [1900-1918], Valencia, 2007, p.176, no.157 (where dated c.1906).
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