main works of art on display in the Huerta de San Vicente |
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There is no certification that these works decorated the house during the period 1926-1936, except for the Boticelli reproduction. However, all of them have some connection with Federico García Lorca, either as works of his own, or gifts from some of those artists whom he dealt with socially. These pictures and drawings are not necessarily originals in the sense that they did not actually decorate the house at that time, nor do they illustrate any specific event in the poet´s life at the Huerta. Still, they can be seen as texts that speak to us of multiple aspects of the life and work of Lorca: his relationship with Manuel de Falla and the puppet shows of 1923, the friendship with Rafael Alberti stemming from the Residencia de Estudiantes, his dealings with Rafael Barradas and the artists from the group of Barcelona, the relationship with Salvador Dalí, his travels and adventures with the theatrical company La Barraca, and correlations with the popular culture of that epoch.
Deserving mention in addition to these items are a series of family photographs, oil paintings of conventional scenes and etchings from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, along with original documents such as the bachelor degree of García Lorca or the teaching degree of Vicenta Lorca.
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