Recently discovered, "Danza gitana" depicts a gypsy dance under a parral with mountains beyond. According to Francesc Fontbona and Francesc Miralles, authors of the monograph "Anglada Camarasa" (Ediciones la Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1981), it was executed in the first stages of Anglada Camarasa's inspirational stay in Mallorca between the years 1914 and 1936. It reflects the artist's interest in the themes of Flamenco song and dance which he set in Mediteranean landscapes that unfold under parrales. Anglada Camarasa first began to work with this theme as early as 1901 ("Danza espanola", Saint Petersburg, Museum of the Hermitage) while in Paris working on his Parisian nocturnal interiors that established his reputation early on, but it was not until his later contact with Mallorca that he turned his attention solely to the gypsy theme. "Danza gitana" can be dated to the period before the Spanish Civil War as it is stylistically similar to other works catalogued in the monograph as "La Paloma, baile gitano" and "Baile gitano" (numbers Da95, and Da101- Da104). Srs. Fontbona and Miralles will incorporate this picture in their monograph as number Da105.

This painting will be sold with a photocertificate and letter of authentication from Srs. Francesc Fontbona and Francesc Miralles.

We are grateful to Srs. Fontbona and Miralles for their assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.