FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada,... Lot 41

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, 1898-Víznar a Alfacar, Granada, 1936). "Flowers in a vase". Ink on paper. Signed in the lower right-hand corner. Size: 23 x 15 cm; 50,5 x 42 cm (frame). Lorca has gone down in history as one of the great poets of the 20th century, but his creative activity encompassed theatre, prose, music, painting and drawing. A significant point that confirms how important his artistic production was to him was the fact that most of his drawings were signed, thus showing his authorship. Rafael Alberti, poet of the Generation of 1927, recounted with fascination: "Lorca, when he picked up some coloured pencils or the same pen with which he wrote his poems, still had the freshness of a fountain, the grace of a game in the street, the smile of a courtyard, a cock of a weather vane, of all that he had seen or heard, he did not know when with the eyes of his childhood in Granada: vases with fish and flowers, virgins pierced by daggers, girls in windows and on rooftops, angels in towers, manolas, harlequins, bandits and drunken sailors in love, all the themes and figures of his lyrical and dramatic poetry, up to the time of the Romancero gitano, a year before he left for New York, a time when his style changed, no doubt infected by the surrealist atmosphere that was already spreading throughout almost all of Europe". A member of the Generation of '27, he was the most influential and popular poet in 20th century Spanish literature. As a playwright, he is considered one of the greatest Spanish playwrights of the 20th century, along with Valle-Inclán and Buero Vallejo. He was shot dead by Franco's authorities one month after the coup d'état that started the Spanish Civil War.