AN AUCTION WITH STORIES
The Hilario Auction House has its twentieth online auction active with a surprising set that was part of the collection of Alfredo González Garaño (1886 – 1969), Argentine painter, disciple of the Catalan H. Anglada Camarasa, member of the "Parera group", active in the first decades of the 20th century; AGG was a cultural manager and great benefactor of public collections: he donated hundreds of works to the National Museums of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts, and to the Ethnographic and Hispano-American Art Museums I. Fernández Blanco, in addition to giving his Legacy to the Academy National Fine Arts, today in study.
Among the lots selected by Hilario, a portfolio with twenty original drawings captivates, including three advances of the collective practices that the Impressionists later carried out, the so-called “exquisite corpses”. (See lot 16)
The catalog, with very seductive bases, brings together drawings by Miguel Ángel Victorica, Eduardo Sívori, José Fioravanti and Juan del Prete, we mention a few, and a bucolic modernist scene of the Port of Buenos Aires, painted by Horacio Butler.
Another discovery is the group of three watercolors by Santiago Stagnaro (1888 – 1918), the “little Leonardo”, whose work captivated in his short life and is so scarce on the market. (See lot 9)
Already in the art of the precursors -painters of the 18th and 19th centuries-, the drawings of the most important European traveling artist who visited America, Mauricio Rugendas (1802 - 1858), are surprising, acquired by González Garaño in 1928, when for economic reasons the German state was forced to sell its treasures. (See lots 1 and 2) And also from those years, seven colored lithographs captivate at the time, works from the workshop of César H. Blanes, who stamped them back in 1833, impossible to find in those conditions. (Lots 17 and 18)
For the followers of popular Creole art, the Hilario gallery presents stirrups, spurs, whips -several of these pieces, from the collection of Alfredo G.G.-, and a "monument" of gaucho culture: the riding tool -except for the saddle , belts and jargon, everything else- by Justo P. Sáenz (h), the great scholar of equestrian uses in the Río de la Plata, author of the classic work on the subject: Equitación gaucha, from 1942. (Lot 38)
Another pearl of the auction: a first edition of the header issue of the Romancero Gitano edited by Sur in 1933, when its author visited Argentina. The nominative copy of A.G.G. It bears the signature and a dedication of Federico García Lorca. (Lot 68)
As usual in this house, each work is presented accompanied by a detailed study, and to learn more about that time of the historical avant-gardes in Argentine art, the art historian María Elena Babino offers an illuminating text in the digital magazine that edited by Hilario, on the same website as this antiquarian gallery and bookstore.
To browse the catalog: www.hilariosubastas.com And if you wish to visit the exhibition of the works, from Monday 25 to Wednesday 27, from 2:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Hilario's headquarters: Libertad 1536, first floor, of CABA.
The closing of the bids will be on Thursday, July 28, from 6:30 p.m. Argentine time.
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