Barns in Castile
Barns in Castile
Muirhead and Gertrude made six visits to Spain between 1924 and 1928, immersing themselves in the history of the country and of Spanish Catholic art and architecture, and collaborating on Gertrude's substantial publication, "Old Spain", illustrated with 154 of Muirhead's drawings. While Muihead made many rich monochrome drawings, many of the Spanish works had the addition of colour.
The Serra dos Ancares mountain range in the Galician Massif in north-west Spain, on the Castile and Leon side of the sierra, is home to the round stone dwellings known as pallozas. More than 200 of them survive, many of them dating back to the 18th century, although the building form is essentially that of Bronze Age and later roundhouses. Bone may have depicted barns of similar structure, although they could also be pallozas.
Dimensions:
c.1925
Watercolour and charcoal
Inscribed Castile recto and Barns in Castile verso, all in the artist's hand; stamp of the Sir Bruce Ingram Collection
Sir Bruce Ingram
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