Valentín de Zubiaurre Y Aguirrezábal (b. Madrid 1879, d. s.p. 1963)
“El Alcalde”. A mayor. Man in a white shirt, black suit and hat standing holding a staff and a book. In the background mountains. Signed Valentin de Zubiaurre. Oil on canvas. 91×65 cm. (2)
Attached to the painting is a letter with the following text: “A mon ami Viggo Chr. Hansen avec toute mon[?] affection bien sincere[?] Valentin de Zubiaurre, Madrid, Decembre 1929”.
Valentín de Zubiaurre Y Aguirrezábal was deaf-mute and received a highly advanced education that prepared him for a highly prolific art career. After attending classes by the painter Daniel Perea (1834–1909), at the age of fifteen Valentín enrolled at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and became a pupil of the prestigious landscape painter Carlos de Haes (1826–1898), and also of Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840–1924) and José Moreno Carbonero (1860–1942), among other painters. This training was further reinforced by his visits to the Prado Museum, where he painted copies of the works of old masters. His most famous works, exploring regional and genre themes, largely focused on rural subject matters charged with symbolism and a profoundly melancholic spirit.
Viggo Christian Hansen (1884–1963), to whom the painting is dedicated, was a Danish painter and sculptor. He visited Spain in 1923 and was a member of the committee for the Spanish Art Exhibition in Copenhagen in 1929, and in that connection must have formed a friendship with Valentín de Zubiaurre.
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