Ricardo Gómez Campuzano (1891–1981) was a famous Colombian painter. The reader who offered this lead could not find much on this particular painting except that it was a direct homage to Goya’s Maja Desnuda.
Ricardo Gómez Campuzano – Le Majita (1925)
The story of this painting is an excellent example of collaboration. First, there was the lead from the reader with a few sparse details. He attempted to find the image online, but was unsuccessful even while browsing the gallery website where the painting is supposedly housed. I casually passed this lead on to Pip in case he ever came across it. He said he may have but didn’t know where it was at the time. I prepared this post in July 2020 anticipating that he would dig it up and later I forgot about it. I came across the draft post while going through and classifying images under the new protocol. I realized I was still missing the image. I was about to delete the draft when Pip came forward with some materials he found stored that I should share with readers and, lo and behold, there is was! So thanks to open communication among the parties involved, all readers can finally see it here.
P.S. Shouldn’t the title in the picture be “La Majita”? “La” is the feminine “the” in Spanish. “Le” is used only as a pronoun.
Perhaps. Pip is usually pretty careful. Maybe he had French on the brain. Maybe one of our fluent Spanish speakers can confirm that the title as it stands makes no sense. -Ron
La majita, see https://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/obra/la-majita-ap5962
Christian is correct. It’s always fun to kill an hour or two browsing a large art database when you don’t understand the language. You never know what you’ll find. Surfing at its purest. Anyway, you might want to check out another of Campuzano’s paintings, which may have a place here: https://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/obra/mar-canada-ap5752