Luis Jimenez Y Aranda

Luis Jiménez Aranda (Spanish, 1845-1928)
Vacas junto a un pozo (Cattle at a well)
Add. Notes: signed 'Luis Jimenez', inscribed indistinctly and dated '1923' (lower right) oil on canvas 43½ x 29 5/8 in. (110.5 x 75.3 cm.)
Notes: Like Paris, Venice was one of Europe's most cosmopolitan cities in the late nineteenth century. Society figures such as Isabella Stewart Gardner spent months in the city's palazzos, assembling around them a coterie of the world's cultural elite. Henry James, James Tissot, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler were just some of the famous names to find inspiration there. It was, however, not only Boldini's taste for wealth and elegance which drew him to La Serenissima. The city's magnificent cultural history, its ever changing light and movement, drew raptures from Boldini in the many letters he wrote to friends from the Grand Hotel. The present work exudes a vibrancy - almost nervousness - which perfectly conveys the sense of Whistler's comment that 'Venice is an impossible place to sit down and sketch in. There is always something still better round the corner'. The arching bridge in the background (which echoes a leaping horse), typically oblique perspective, and swirling brushstrokes combine to create an explosion of movement in which the background is as animated as the revelling figures in the foreground. The present work has been signed and numbered on the reverse by Emilia Cardona Boldini and the authenticity has kindly been confirmed by Francesca Dini.

Luis Jimenez y Aranda Spanish, 1845-1928 WOMAN HAYING Signed and dated Luis Jimenez/Paris 1889 (ll) Oil on cradled panel 24 x 17 3/8 inches (61.0 x 44.0 cm.) Estimate $5,000-7,000 Frame rubbing. Tiny spot of paint loss lower right center. Smallspot of pigment loss at left center by the woman's arm. Dirtyvarnish, yellowed. Cannot detect any restoration through thedulling varnish under UV light. Appears that someone spot cleaned asmall area at the upper left corner.

Luis Jimenez y Aranda (Spanish, 1845-1919) The Dancing Lesson signed and dated 'Luis.Jiminez Paris 1888.' (lower left) oil on canvas 24 x 39¼ in. (73.5 x 99.5 cm.) Painted in 1888 Pre-Lot Text THE PROPERTY OF A DALLAS COLLECTOR Lot Notes Luis Jimenez y Arada, brother of the history and genre painterJosé Jimenez y Aranda, was a student under E. Cano at the Academyof Fine Arts in Seville. After living in Rome and Paris, Luissettled in Pontoise in 1876. Jimenez was awarded a medal at the1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, another in Munich in 1890 andan honorable mention in Berlin in 1891.

provenance: 34.25 by 25cm., 13i by 9nin. william lever, 1st viscount leverhulme hanging at thornton manor (whl 1537: tm 121) jimenez was born in seville on 21st june 1845. he studied art in seville before moving to rome where this watercolour was drawn. he then moved to paris where he won a gold medal at the universal exhibition in 1889. he later won various accolades in munich and berlin. he died in 1928 in pontoise signed l.l.: l. jiminez roma watercolour