Doctor Pedro Ruiz Prieto
Ca. 1880. Watercolour, Gouache / tempera on wove paper.Not on display
The drawings in this group (D9577-D9768) come largely from old notebooks, which were probably dismembered after the artist´s death and in his will, in order to be offered for sale. As can be seen in the provenance of this group of drawings, studied by Juan Fernández Lacomba, most of them are stamped with the violet seal of the will, a very frequent practice in the second half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century. Fortunately, the drawings were soon recovered by the family friend, bibliophile and collector Carlos García in an album in which he gathered them together with those that are now in the Fundación Cajasol. These drawings offer a panoramic view of the years of Sánchez Perrier´s most intense activity. Most of them come, as mentioned above, from small-format sketchbooks, drawn in pencil, pen or monochrome gouache. His main areas of interest were river landscapes with their boats, groves and plants, country and farm houses with their waterwheels, streets and houses in small towns in Brittany, Aragon, Galicia, Andalusia (Alcalá de Guadaira, Constatina and Guillena) and also in Venice and Granada. But there are also studies of figures that will serve him for his pictorial compositions, along with portraits of people close to him. In addition to these small format drawings, there are others made on larger sheets, sometimes on colored paper, in which with grease pencils or charcoal he conceived very pictorial landscapes that acquire autonomous value.
