After almost 50 years, the portrait of the writer Elena Garro painted by Ramon Gaya.
Ramón Gaya, who was not only a renowned painter, but was also an applauded writer, and who described himself as “a painter who writes,” has captured the attention of the media, after it became known that the portrait he made of the writer Elena Garro will be exhibited almost 50 years old.
According to the media El País, this work will be exhibited in the museum dedicated to Gaya, in Murcia, as part of the exhibition “From writer to writer” that opened this September 27.
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In the exhibition you will be able to see some first editions of Gaya’s books (with annotations and corrections), manuscripts, postcards, literary magazines such as the originals of “Hora de España” or “The Prodigal Son”, his notebooks with drawings and other writings. .
Likewise, you can see portraits of writers with whom the Murcian had a relationship. One of those that stands out will be the one dedicated to the Mexican writer Elena Garro, who had a relationship with Octavio Paz.
According to the media, the portrait that her friend Gaya made of her had been sold thirty years earlier so that she could survive for a while with that money, given that at the end of the sixties she was exiled in Madrid, after fleeing Mexico for his controversial participation in the student movement of 1968.
Something to highlight is that the whereabouts of said painting, which even only a few knew, so much so that it had become a myth in the biography of the author of the novel “The Memories of the Future”, until a while ago was uncertain. However, it reached the art world again in 2018.
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Those who had it gave it to the Ramón Gaya Museum on loan and that year it was exhibited to a few people; However, it “went unnoticed” by many and ended up in the museum’s warehouse for six years.
Meanwhile, now thanks to the fact that the museum’s current director, Rafael Fuster, identified it, it will now be included in the exhibition and can finally be seen: “In it you can see a thin, beautiful Garro, with shoulder-length blonde hair.” “, a dark green blouse with a turtleneck and short sleeves, and a hat with a light veil, reminiscent of Balenciaga designs, which crowns the writer,” according to the media.
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2024-09-30 23:51:45