Flamenco dancer

"Manolo Hugué (Barcelona, 1872 – Caldes de Montbui, 1945) was an excellent sculptor who was also a master of colour and lines. His pictorial drawings offer a good demonstration of this fact. On a background with a large, purposely contrasted stain, there is a figure of a woman playing the castanets who looks as if she were about to use them to accompany the beginning of a dance.
One of the curious aspects related to this work is the date on which it was created. When the rebuilding work was carried out in Cau Ferrat it was discovered that it had been produced around 1901. However, subsequent research situates the work between 1906 and 1908, the years when the protagonist, the singer Maria Gay, opened Carmen in the Theatre de l'Opera Comique, in Paris. It can be assumed that Manolo went to the opening night and then he created the work."