Achieta

1911/1913

Ignacio Zuloaga

Artist, Spanish, 1870 - 1945

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 195.6 x 124.4 cm (77 x 49 in.)
    framed: 221.6 x 150.2 cm (87 1/4 x 59 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.231

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sold by the artist to (C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York), probably in 1914;[1] purchased 12 June 1924 by Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[2] bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] Photocopies of the sale records in the NGA curatorial files (originals in the Chester Dale papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC) indicate that Zuloaga sold the painting directly to Kraushaar. Zuloaga's records indicate that he sold the painting to a New York dealer in 1914 (Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, La Vida y el arte de Ignacio Zuloaga [Madrid, 1950]: 234, no. 393).
[2] Photocopies of sales records in the NGA curatorial files. Chester Dale discussed the purchase of this painting in his unpublished autobiography, 1959 revised typescript of his 1953 manuscript, page 7, Chester Dale papers, Box 1 of 15, Archives of American Art. Achita is shown hanging on the wall of Dale's New York apartment in a photograph reproduced in Helen Appleton Read, "The Chester Dale Collection," Vogue 75 (February 15, 1930): 80.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1919

  • Modern Spanish Painting, Kabatznick Gallery, Boston, 1919.

1946

  • Memorial Loan Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by Zuloaga, French & Co. Inc., New York, 1946, no. 11, as Toreador.

1965

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1950

  • Lafuente Ferrari 1950, 234, no. 393.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 141.

  • Paintings other than French in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 21, repro.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 128, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 378, repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 442, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: I. Zuloaga

Wikidata ID

Q20191532

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