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Some of Quintín de Torre's production (the part concerned with the world of work, where he produced rounded interpretations of miners, stevedores and sailors, and recreated with remarkable verisimilitude the efforts of a worker concentrating on his job) has some relation with the contributions of the sculptor from Tarragona Julio Antonio, who produced a corpus of work close to the aesthetic tenets of the '98 group and Noucentisme. De Torre shares with Julio Antonio an interest in portraying human types of a sharp individuality, but so characteristic of a specific region that they might perfectly be considered "archetypes". The bust of a young Ship's Boy resuscitates one of the traditional characters of the Basque sea-going world, the cho, a subject also targeted by other Basque artists from the late 19th century on. The classicism of the figure, with a bronze-like polychrome, is accentuated by the restraint in insinuating movement and the concentrated effort of the work the lad has to do. [Miriam Alzuri]

Selected bibliography

• Catálogo oficial de la Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes de 1943 [Cat. exp.]. Madrid, Blass, 1943. pp. 72, 91, il., n° cat. 28.
• Exposición organizada con motivo de la concesión, por la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, de la Medalla de Honor al Ayuntamiento de la Villa [Folleto]. Bilbao, Ayuntamiento, 1952. n° cat. 23.
• Bengoechea, Javier de. Catálogo de arte moderno y contemporáneo del Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. Bilbao, Banco de Vizcaya, 1980. p. 154. (Con el título Grumete).
• Escultura Vasca, 1889-1939 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Banco de Bilbao, 1984. p. 34
• Alix, Josefina. Escultura española : 1900-1936. Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 1985. pp. 97, 288.
• Barañano, Kosme María de. El trabajo y el arte. Bilbao, Caja de Ahorros Vizcaina, 1986.
• López Echevarrieta, Alberto. Quintín de Torre : el último imaginero. Bilbao, Muelle de Uribitarte, 2006. p. 120.
• Guía Artistas Vascos. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2008. pp. 72-73.
• Gida Euskal Artistak. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Eder Museoa, 2008. pp. 72-73.
• Soto Cano, Maria. "Los primeros años del escultor Quintín de Torre, 1877-1910", Sancho el Sabio, n° 32. 2010. p. 52.
• Jaureguiberry, Michel de ... [et. al.]. Euskal zizelkariak = Escultores vascos = Sculpteurs basques. Ziburu-Ciboure, Arteaz, 2011. p. 191.
• Guide Basque Artists. Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2012. pp. 71-72, n° cat. 33b.
• Bilboko Museoaren alfabetoa = El alfabeto del Museo de Bilbao = The alphabet of the Bilbao Museum = L'alphabet du Musée de Bilbao [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2018. pp. 232-233, n° cat. 129.