Null Book "A History of Spain" 1966

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Book "A History of Spain" 1966

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Book "A History of Spain" 1966

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Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

GOLLUT (Loys). Les Memoires historiques de la repub[lique] sequanoise, et des princes de la Franche-Comté de Bourgongne. Avec un sommaire de l'Histoire des catholiques rois de Castille, & Portugal, de la maison desdicts princes de Bourgongne. Dole, Dominique Wapler, 1592. Fort in-folio of [10] ff, 1108 pp, [17] ff. Brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Title piece renewed, headpieces, nerves and corners restored. Numerous rubs and scuffs. First edition of one of the most important works on the history of Franche-Comté. Dedicated to Philip II of Spain, it is one of the founding books of French Hispanism, and has become rare because it was publicly burned by order of the magistrates of Besançon, who were unhappy with the title of capital of Franche-Comté that the author wanted to give to the town of Dole. The title, printed in red and black, features the engraved arms of Burgundy. Pp. 726-788 contain a list of the Knights of the Golden Fleece with a description of their coats of arms; this is accompanied by 252 empty medallions, intended to receive engraved coats of arms for gluing or illumination. Extensive light spotting, small worm gallery in margin of several pages, several paper restorations.

Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

LUIS SEOANE LÓPEZ (Buenos Aires, 1910 - A Coruña, 1979). "Still life". 1969. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower margin. Provenance: José María Moreno Galván collection. Measurements: 30 x 40 cm; 33 x 43 cm (frame). Scene of interior in which the artist arranges a recurrent subject in the history of art as it is the still life. However, he exposes this genre from a modern point of view where the artist plays with the juxtaposition of elemental forms and a range of saturated colors applied in planes that are diluted and independent of objects and realism. A draftsman, painter, engraver and writer, Luis Seoane was educated in A Coruña, where he worked as a lawyer and was a member of the Partigo Galeguista, and in 1936 he settled in Buenos Aires. In his youth he participated in the political and cultural activity of the students of A Coruña and, according to the historian and journalist Carlos Fernández Santander, Seoane could be the author who, under the pseudonym of Hernán Quijano, wrote "Galicia Mártir. Episodes of the white terror in the Galician provinces", a book published in Paris and Argentina in 1938. In 1932 he graduated in Law and Social Sciences in Santiago de Compostela, and during these years he began his career in various fields. Thus, between 1927 and 1933 he militated in republican and autonomist left-wing parties, illustrated books and magazines and held his first exhibitions. In 1934 he returned to A Coruña from Santiago and began to work as a lawyer, while sharing gatherings with Huici, Cebreiro, Fernández Mazas, Del Valle, Julio J. Casal, Francisco Miguel and others. That same year he joined the Partido Galeguista. Two years later he took part in the campaign for the Statute of Autonomy, but when the war broke out he was forced to flee to the Argentine capital. Once settled in Buenos Aires, he kept in touch with other compatriots exiled from Franco's regime, among them the painter Leopoldo Nóvoa and the activist María Miramontes. In 1937 he published his first book there, "Trece estampas de la traición". Three years later he founded the collections "Hórreo" and "Dorna" in EMECÉ Editores, and in 1943 he created the magazine "Correo Literario" and Editorial Nova. Two years later, his "Homenaje a la Torre de Hércules" (Homage to the Tower of Hercules) was awarded in New York. In 1948 he founded the publishing house Botella al Mar, and the following year he made a trip to Europe and exhibited in London. Between 1952 and 1962 he exhibited in New York, founded the magazine "Galicia Emigrante" and the publishing house Citania, and was awarded prizes such as the medal of the Universal Exhibition of Brussels, the medal of the Senate of the Argentine Nation (1958) or the Palanza Prize (1962). At the same time, he worked for the Buenos Aires gallery Gordons, directed by Roberto Mackintosh, an expert and connoisseur of his work. In the last decades of his life he alternated his residence in America with trips to Galicia, and in 1977 the first complete edition of his poetic work was published. Between 1963 and 1979 he held exhibitions in Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil and other countries. In 1994 the Day of the Galician Letters was dedicated to him, and in 2003 the Galician Center of Contemporary Art, in Santiago de Compostela, dedicated an important retrospective exhibition to him, which was later taken to the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. He is currently represented in the Caixanova Collection, among many others.

Estim. 12 000 - 16 000 EUR

EUGENIO GRANELL (A Coruña, 1912 - Madrid, 2001). "Behind the sphinx", 1959. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower margin, titled and dated on the back. Measurements: 51 x 76 cm; 64 x 88.5 cm (frame). This composition seems to evoke an underwater world of corals and metamorphic forms of all colors and textures. The title takes us into the allegorical plane. Granell resorts to surrealism and evocations of the tropical landscape (in the fifties he was exiled in the Caribbean and Latin America) to compose organic and suggestive abstractions that hide complex concepts related to the difficult political and personal moment he was living. During his stay in Guatemala, Granell absorbed influences from local cultures, which is reflected in his works through motifs and colors that evoke indigenous art and the exuberance of the landscapes. At the same time, the influence of Max Ernst's mossy landscapes, his enchanted forests and biomorphic forms suggesting a secret life can be appreciated. Painter, watercolorist, engraver and sculptor, Eugenio Fernández Granell spent his childhood in Santiago de Compostela, a city that will largely mark his plastic work. Initially inclined towards music, in 1928 he moved to Madrid to study violin at the Escuela Superior de Música. In the capital he frequented intellectual circles linked to Marxism, and finally joined the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista in 1935. At the outbreak of the civil war he joined the Republican army, and also directed "El combatiente rojo", the newspaper of his party. However, after the end of the war he was persecuted both by the new regime and by his communist comrades, because of his Trotskyist condition. He went into exile in France in 1939, and after passing through several concentration camps, he went to South America. He settles in the Dominican Republic, where he enters as first violin in the Symphony Orchestra. However, when Trujillo's dictatorship hardened, Fernández Granell left the country to settle in Guatemala, where he worked as a professor at the School of Plastic Arts. When the Guatemalan revolution broke out in 1950, he had to flee again for fear of Stalinist persecution, and this time he arrived with his family in Puerto Rico, where the painter would occupy the chair of Art History in the Faculty of Humanities. However, in spite of this continuous pilgrimage, Fernández Granell continued with his artistic work, holding exhibitions and publishing books of short stories and poetry. In 1956 he meets Marcel Duchamp, who flatters his plastic and poetic art and reinforces him in his surrealist activity. That same year he moved to New York, where he settled permanently. Professor of Spanish Literature at Brooklyn College in the city, at this stage he earned his doctorate in Sociology at the New School for Social Research, with the thesis "Picasso's Guernica. The end of a Spanish era" (1967). Fernández Granell will continue in New York until 1985, when after retiring he returns with his wife to Spain, settling in Madrid. Already widely recognized, he will be awarded outstanding prizes such as the Gold Medal of Fine Arts. Likewise, in 1995, the foundation that bears his name was established in Santiago de Compostela, and which today collects most of his plastic production.

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