Grapes and Pomegranates

Ca. 1920. Oil on canvas.
On display elsewhere

This still life, in which María Luisa de la Riva shows a basket with several bunches of grapes of different varieties and a number of open pomegranates, is signed in Paris, like her Grapes of Spain. It is a mature work in which she clearly repeats the formula that had brought her international success. Although the painting was awarded a prize, some critics reproached it for poor quality and an illogical composition.

G. Navarro, Carlos, Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931), Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2020, p.336 nº 96

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Inventory number: P006345
Author: María Luisa de la Riva y Callol
Title: Grapes and Pomegranates
Date: Ca. 1920
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Width: 116.700005 cm; Height: 162 cm
Provenance: Acquired from the author for the Museo de Arte Moderno, 1920
Entry date: 1971

Bibliography +

Espinós, Adela; Orihuela, Mercedes y Royo Villanova, Mercedes, "El Prado disperso". Cuadros depositados en Madrid. V. Instituto San Isidro, Boletín del Museo del Prado, II, 1981, pp. 135.

Pintoras en España, 1859/1926. De María Luisa de la Riva a Maruja Mallo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 2014, pp. 19,24-25,116-117.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 509.

G. Navarro, Carlos, Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2020, pp. 336 nº 96.