Danzas Argentinas. Argentine dances.

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Pietro, Aurora de & Carlos Vega. Danzas Argentinas. Argentine dances. Buenos Aires, Carau Editorial, 1960. Primera serie. Folio. [10] leaves. Title in blue & black; some larger historiated initials and heading in blue. Six lithographs, hand-coloured and signed by the artist Aurora de Pietro. Original illustrated wrappers, hand-coloured by the artist. First series. Parallel English-Spanish text. With 6 signed and hand-coloured plates by Aurora de Pietro and music and lyrics by Carlos Vega. No 442 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Signed by both authors. The dances depicted are La Firmeza, La Condición, El Gato, El Bailecito, La Huella and La Mariquita. Aurora de Pietro began her artistic career at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. The recipient of numerous awards and medals, she spent many years studying and portraying the lives and customs of the ordinary people, and particularly the folk dances of Argentina and other Latin American countries. Carlos Vega is the author of a number of works on South American music and dance, including the popular music of Argentina, the music of the ancient Peruvians, and the origin of creole dances. He tape-recorded all the tunes of the present volume from original sources, and his transcriptions therefore represent a faithful record of these traditional songs. Offered with: Pietro, Aurora de & Carlos VEGA. Danzas Argentinas. Argentine Dances (segunda serie). Buenos Aires, Carau Editorial, 1962. Folio. [10] leaves. Title in green & black. With six lithographs, hand-coloured and signed by the artist, and with six uncoloured lithographs in the original state signed by the artist. Original illustrated wrappers, hand-coloured by the artist. Second series. Parallel English-Spanish text. With six hand-coloured plates (repeated in black-and-white) by Aurora de Pietro and music and lyrics by Carlos Vega. Copy no 5, one of nine with 12 lithographs on Whatman paper, of a total edition of 500 copies. The dances represented are La Sajuriana, El Cuándo, El Triunfo, La Calandria, La Chacarera, and Danza de las Cintas. The dancers are elegant couples, country folk, and children. Each plate is signed in pencil by the artist who also names the dance in manuscript. OFFERED WITH: i) A manuscript note in Aurora de Pietro s hand, stating that copy number 5 (of the second series, i.e. the copy offered here) is reserved for Miguel E. Dolan. The note is written on the back of what appears to be a printed draft colophon for the second series, dated September 1961, and numbered 035. To the right of the note are a series of sample brush strokes in crimson/pink watercolour paint of a shade which matches that used in the finished work; ii) 2 sketches on tracing paper and 3 sketches on paper by Aurora de Pietro, not apparently related to the present works; iii) 3 art gallery and bookshop programs (1974-1977), announcing exhibitions of Pietro s work, one of which is an exhibition of pictures of traditional Argentine dances which includes a number of the illustrations from the present works; iv) a further copy of the September 1961 draft colophon leaf, numbered 181, bearing various layout instructions by the artist s hand. On the reverse is a manuscript list of street traders - onion seller, shoeshine boy, newspaper seller, dairy seller, etc - possibly ideas for a future work. The first modern studies of Argentine dances, the origins of their rhythms, the themes, patterns, costumes and performance. All are recorded in South America from the early 19th century, though their characteristics are much older and traced to Spain, to Creole rhythms, and to Gaucho guitar music. N° de ref. del artículo 5797

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