SAURA, ANTONIO
1930 Huesca/Spain - 1998 Cuenca/Spain

Title: Historia de Espana.
Subtitle: Complete Portfolio of 16 Colour Lithographs.
Date: 1964.
Each colour lithograph on GUARRO (watermark). Different depiction dimensions. Sheet size
49 x 38.5cm each. Each signed and numbered. Number: 26/50.
Frame: Each framed. Not examined out of the frame.


The following personalities from Spanish history are depicted:
Isabela la Católica, Felipe II, Carlos IV, Menendez y Pelayo, Torquemada, Quevedo, Fernando VII, Santa Teresa, Weiler y Nicolau, Duquesa de Alba, Hernán Cortés, San Juan de la Cruz, Goya, Pepa Botella, Cardenal Cisneros, Caudillo

Provenance:
- Galerie Boisserée, Cologne (adhesive label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Weber-Caflisch, Oliver/Cramer, Patrick: Antonio Saura - L'Oeuvre imprime/La obra grafica. Catalog raisonné, Geneva 2000, registration number. 51-71, ill.

- Complete portfolio of 16 signed color lithographs on the auction market for the first time
- Powerful testimony to Spanish post-war modernism
- The portfolio can be found in the collections of major Spanish museums.