"An artist" notebook

Lined paper. Stapled binding. A5 (15 x 21 cm). 32 sheets (64 pages).

María Luisa Puiggener was one of the most outstanding painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Andalusia and one of the most important in Spain, portraying the social reality of the time through portraits of women. In the canvas An Artist (circa 1901) the iconography reflects a demand for a serious and professional valuation of the training and work of women creators. Thus, the figure in the composition is not a gentle representation of a girl engaged in a pastime, but of a studious woman concentrating on an act of study, examining the model and making her drawing.