Gaston Castello - Figure and Hoguera Sketch - Original Drawing - 1942
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Original pencil drawing by Gaston Castello (Alicante, 1901-1986), signed and dated 1942, worked on both sides: on the recto, an almost life-size figure study, a young woman in profile wearing a headscarf; on the verso, a design for a hoguera monument.
Original pencil drawing by Gaston Castello (Alicante, 1901-1986), signed and dated 1942, worked on both sides: on the recto, an almost life-size figure study, a young woman in profile wearing a headscarf; on the verso, a design for a hoguera monument.
The foguerer sketch on the back shows a niche with an allegorical figure beneath two great horns and a heart-shaped cartouche with a satirical quatrain. Castello was the great reformer of the Hogueras de San Juan of Alicante: around 1930 he introduced cardboard and raised platforms, signed dozens of hogueras and chaired the festival's governing committee between 1956 and 1960.
Medium: Pencil drawing on paper, on both sides
Artist: Gaston Castello (Alicante, 1901-1986)
Date: 1942, signed and dated
Dimensions: 24.8 x 18.9 in (63 x 48 cm)
Condition: Poor to fair. Paper with general wrinkling and creases, toning, spots of foxing and small tears with paper reinforcements at the edges; both compositions complete and perfectly legible
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Original pencil drawing by Gaston Castello (Alicante, 1901-1986), signed and dated 1942, worked on both sides: on the recto, an almost life-size figure study, a young woman in profile wearing a headscarf; on the verso, a design for a hoguera monument.