| | | | MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZABalenciaga and Spanish PaintingText by Eloy Martínez de la Pera, Pamela Golbin, Estrella de Diego, Hamish Bowles, Juan Gutiérrez.
 An elegant clothbound volume celebrating the master fashion designer Balenciaga's affinity for Spanish paintingThis book surveys the significant influence that the painters of the so-called Spanish School had on the creative process of Cristóbal Balenciaga, the great master couturier of the 20th century.
Balenciaga was born in the Spanish coastal town of Getaria in 1895 and was the son of a seamstress. His mother made clothing for prominent families including the Marquis and Marquise of Casa Torres who spent their summers in Getaria. It was at their mansion that the young designer first admired the garments by the best London tailors and the most reputed Parisian couturiers, and where he was able to enjoy the magnificent art collection owned by the couple.
Balenciaga was known for his ability to take historical garments and render them in a highly modern way, with the use of clean lines and pure forms that earned him the epithet of "the architect of fashion.
Throughout his career, Balenciaga took delight in the colors, volumes and forms of the fabrics depicted in the paintings of Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Goya, Raimundo de Madrazo and Zuloaga, among others. References to Spanish culture were present in his work and continued to be seen even in his most groundbreaking period. Balenciaga and Spanish Painting features a selection of paintings and valuable items of clothing from the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and other national museums, as well as private collections.
Though it would seem impossible to replicate El Greco's gleaming fabrics in real life, Balenciaga manages
to do just that." –Hyperallergic
ABOVE LEFT: Francisco de Zurbarán, "Saint Casilda" (ca. 1630–35). ABOVE RIGHT: Dress and cape evening ensemble, 1962.
|
|  | STATUS: Out of stock Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory. | |
| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/4/2019 Featured images—Ignacio Zuloaga's Portrait of María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Duchess of Alba, 1921, and a Balenciaga evening gown in taffeta, 1952—are reproduced from Balenciaga and Spanish Painting, the deluxe exhibition catalogue from Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza featuring a variety of special papers, exquisite printing, sewn-in black-and-white booklets of vintage documentary photographs and portraits, newly commissioned photography and a wealth of historical paintings that influenced the master couturier. "Feel," Eloy Martínez de la Pera writes. "Feeling Velázquez, Balenciaga created the most beautiful feminine silhouettes of twentieth-century couture. Feeling El Greco, he used iridescent silk satins, sateens and taffetas draped with the most vibrant colors. Feeling Sánchez Coello and Pantoja de la Cruz, he dyed wool and velvets black, elevating the absence of color to the peak of elegance. Feeling Zurbarán, he designed emblematic volumes with gazar in all his creations and eliminated seams in order to purify a wedding dress to the maximum. Feeling Goya, he rendered a handmade lace embellished by transparency. Feeling Zuloaga, he found pride in 'Spanishness' that emerged in each of his layers, in each of his toiles. Feeling art, he honored art itself, seeking the perfection of a stitch, the legacy of a simple seamstress from Getaria: Martina Eizaguirre, his mother." continue to blog | FORTHCOMING AND NEW: FASHION |  | MOUSSE PUBLISHINGISBN: 9788867496181
USD $55.00 | CAN $77Pub Date: 3/28/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | BAGGU CORPORATIONISBN: 9798218017798
USD $65.00 | CAN $90 UK £ 57Pub Date: 12/6/2022
Active | In stock
|
|  | LARS MüLLER PUBLISHERSISBN: 9783037787076
USD $88.00 | CAN $123Pub Date: 12/6/2022
Active | In stock
|
|  | NAI010 PUBLISHERSISBN: 9789462087170
USD $45.00 | CAN $63Pub Date: 6/21/2022
Active | In stock
|
|  | LARS MüLLER PUBLISHERSISBN: 9783037787007
USD $50.00 | CAN $69Pub Date: 1/24/2023
Active | In stock
|
|  | DELMONICO BOOKS/MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGOISBN: 9781636810744
USD $79.95 | CAN $104.95 UK £ 67.99Pub Date: 8/9/2022
Active | In stock
|
|  | DELMONICO BOOKS/LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTISBN: 9781636810188
USD $49.95 | CAN $67.95 UK £ 39.99Pub Date: 5/10/2022
Active | In stock
|
|  | SILVANA EDITORIALEISBN: 9788836650354
USD $55.00 | CAN $76Pub Date: 6/7/2022
Active | In stock
|
|  | EDITION PATRICK FREYISBN: 9783907236239
USD $65.00 | CAN $88Pub Date: 8/8/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | LA FáBRICAISBN: 9788417769598
USD $35.00 | CAN $49Pub Date: 5/11/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | STEIDLISBN: 9783958298859
USD $175.00 | CAN $245Pub Date: 5/23/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | SKIRAISBN: 9788857242415
USD $65.00 | CAN $92Pub Date: 4/21/2020
Active | In stock
|
|
|
| |
