Two men—contemporary Spaniards —whose work cannot be ignored are Ramon and Valentin de Zubiaurre. Fresh color, fine painting, it’s all there, with the added attraction of strange foreign scenes—husky Basque fishermen, old ladies spinning, soldiers singing and drinking outside of inns. But he who is not stopped by all this continental glamor will find himself sympathizing with these people and, at the end, wishing to step with them into their pictures and go wandering off to the small multicolored houses in the background.
These pictures are on tour in America for the first time. They were shown at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh last month, will be shown in New York until Feb. 14, will go on tour, starting at Cleveland, before they return to Spain.
The Zubiaurres, well known in Spain and in France, had a large exhibition in Paris in 1922. They come from the small town of Garay, in the province of Biscaye, and at the present time take first place among painters of Spain.
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