París y 1902: un año en la vida del escultor Miguel Blay

Abstract

"París y 1902, un año en la vida del escultor Miguel Blay", includes the edition of the artist logbook, kept in the mentioned place and date, introduced by a preliminary study. The edited document is followed by an appendix containing several lists of clients, artists, auxiliary workers and workshops, photographers, family members, artist models and other people that, by now, will remain unidentified. All the names are alphabetically ordered. There is also listed a fragment of Blay's private library. The records were kept daily. The aim of the preliminar y study has been to describe the relations hip between the sculptor's works and a specific kind of clients: aristocrats, conservative politicians and Basque millionaires paid for sculptures that, in some cases, became later civic monuments. Among them, Trinidad lturbe deserves particular attention. She was a distinguished art sponsor and a pioneer in the folk crafts revival movement.