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Town of Lerma
Regoyos, Darío de
Ribadesella, Asturias, 01/11/1857-Barcelona, 29/10/1913
Oil on panel
31.7 x 41.2 cm
Regoyos (bottom left hand corner)
1906
Early 20th century
82/132
Acquired in 1943
In Town of Lerma, from 1906, the year he made a number of visits there, Regoyos chose to paint some old, rather modest houses, over which hang the trees on the riverside behind, against a typical Castile horizon with a sky full of clouds. Far from painting just the street, Regoyos included the people there and the things hanging in the houses, preferring to paint this scene rather than go for other, more attractive themes available in the town. This would suggest he was more interested in capturing the daily life of ordinary people and the precariousness of their means than in depicting convents or country mansion houses. [Juan San Nicolás, 2008]
Selected bibliography
- Benet, Rafael. Darío de Rogoyos: el impresionismo y mas allá del impresionismo. Barcelona, Iberia - Joaquín Gil, 1944. n° cat. 42. (con el titulo Porches de Aldea)
- Exposición-homenaje a Dario de Regoyos, 1859-1913 [Folleto]. Bilbao, Asociación Amigos del Museo, 1951.
- Fernández Avello, Manuel. Pintores asturianos. Oviedo, Banco Herrero, 1971. p. 113.
- Pintores y escultores vascos de ayer, hoy y mañana. Bilbao, La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, vol. I, 1973. p. 48.
- Bengoechea, Javier de. Catálogo de arte moderno y contemporáneo del Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya, 1980. p. 102. (Con el título Villa de Lerma).
- San Nicolás, Juan. Darío de Regoyos, 1857-1913. Barcelona, Edicions catalanes, 1990. p. 242, n° cat. 64.
- San Nicolás, Juan. "Darío de Regoyos : bere prestakuntza, bizitza eta obra = aspectos de su formación, vida y obra = Aspects of this training, life and work", B'07 : Buletina = Boletín = Bulletin, n° 3. 2008. p. 227, fig. 13.
- San Nicolás, Juan. Darío de Regoyos : catálogo razonado = catalogue raisonné. Madrid, Fundación Azcona ; Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias , 2014. p. 377, n° cat. 509a.
- Quintanal Sánchez, Inmaculada [Ed. lit.]. Darío de Regoyos, en su centenario. Oviedo, Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 2015. p. 40.
- Homenaje a Castilla [Cat. exp.]. Madrid, Banco de Bilbao, 1986. p. 57 ( Con el titulo Casas del botero de Lerma).