AN UNPLUBLISHED WORK OF ANDRÉS PARLADÉ, CONDE DE AGUIAR

Abstract

The painter from Malaga Andrés Parladé, better known as conde de Aguiar, made a serie of figurative portraits of familiars and staff at your service in the last decades of his life in Seville. The characters are presented dressed in clothes of time, in order to develop its plastic qualities and his individual historical knowledge interests. The studied here for the first time, A boy with halberd, signed and dated in 1920, is preserved in a sevillian private collection and is one of the best exponents of his historically informed paint in which is shown his peculiar reconstruction of the past.