LOT DETAILS

Materials:

white marble, on a white marble base

Size Notes:

figure; base: 86.5 cm

Markings:

signed and dated: M. Benlliure / Roma 89 and inscribed: 10 and the base entitled: BUZO DE PLAYA

Exhibited:

Madrid, Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes de 1890, 1890, no. 1064

Literature:

A. Comas y Blanco, La Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Madrid, 1890, p.102;. Edición oficial, Madrid, 1890, p. 214, no. 1064;. C. de Quevedo Pessanha, Vida Artistica de Mariano Benlliure, Madrid, 1947, pp. 94-95;. V. Montoliu Soler, Mariano Benlliure. 1862-1947, Valencia, 1997, no. 87

Provenance:

purchased by Pedro Losada y Gutiérrez de los Rios, 10 th Conde de Gavia la Grande y de Valdelagrana, Madrid, 1890;. presented to the inventor Isaac Peral, Cadiz, 1890;. private collection, Spain;. Sotheby’s London, 5 July 2000, lot 145;. private collection, the Netherlands .