As if the name of the canvas were a premonition of what we lost in a drawer, to give it the significance it had later on when we found it: Rosario de Velasco (1904 – 1991)Indispensable and one of the many women whose pages were torn in art history books and whose memory was darkened until her memory was almost destroyed, will soon be remembered in an exhibition. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. In this exhibition is a still life with a story that connects Thyssen and Rosario de Velasco with the state of Alicante: ‘Things’A seemingly disorderly painting in which everyday objects come to life, such as a crystal ball, which does not depict flowers or fruits, but in the middle reflects a powerful self-portrait of the author. A treasure found close to Marina Baixa and passed on to the Velasco family by a person who prefers to remain anonymous.
The exhibition will feature works from Rosario’s early period (circa 1930-1935), when “Rosario won many awards and was well known,” his great-niece Toya Viudes de Velasco told INFORMACIÓN.
Sharing spaces with Rosario de Velasco Angeles SantosMaruja Mallo anyone Varus drugs inside Reina Sofia Museum thanks to pictures like ‘Adam and Eve’ or the untitled work known as the “children’s room”. With his paintings in the Museum of Contemporary Art paris pompidouor in Valencia Museum of Fine ArtsAmong other sites such as the Madrid Costume Museum, but neither her name nor her face have managed to remain in the collective imagination, something her family tried to remedy when she went to work and asked for help. via social networks To find pictures of Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor’s former student.
A member of the Association of Iberian Artists and close to new German objectivity, Rosario de Velasco was one of the most admired painters of his time and never stopped painting, leaving behind hundreds of works that his descendants continue to catalog. Beginning in the 1930s, the young Rosario would hang her paintings in multiple exhibitions both in Spain and in cities of recognized cultural and artistic prestige, such as Paris or Berlin, which led her to consider it one of the foundations of Spanish painting.
‘Things’, a hidden treasure in Alicante
The search brought many surprises, and one of them was exactly hiding. Somewhere near Benidormstill life titled treasure that an unnamed person has kept ‘Things’, dated 1935 and that it will be very important in Thyssen’s future exhibition.
He only knew of a reproduction of the still life Toya Viudes de Velasco, which he found in the newspaper archive of the National Library: “I was aware of this because I had seen it in some publications of the time: gHe held a newspaper clipping from 1935 A painting that I found in the BNE newspaper library and that contains that painting that interests me very much: not a still life with flowers or fruits, but also a still life of things that have something very special. a crystal ball, where you can see the reflection of the paint, was a painting that really interested me…”.
After they started looking for Rosario’s paintings, many people, including an unnamed artist from the state of Alicante, contacted the family and invited Toya to their home to review Rosario’s work: “I had no idea what was going on when I went. I was going to find it at this person’s house. because he hadn’t sent me pictures of the paintings he had, I went a little blind and when I entered his house (he also paints) and went into a studio he owned and I saw the painting… you can imagine the surprise, because in addition to that I’ve only seen black and white.
remember the artist
“We could count on having right now 300 registered works”, describes Toya Viudes. Among all his work there are later works on paper, portraits … “not all of them will be exhibited at Thyssen, but we will be able to organize many other things because it is about saving Rosario as a whole from great figures, He was one of the greatest artists of the 1930s that almost nothing was done about.there very little researched and little written…”. His family is clear: the aim is to remember the artist, to start with this project and to support research, work, articles on Art History with a focus on Rosario de Velasco, and more special exhibitions after the upcoming exhibition at the Museum. – Bornemisza from Madrid.