From Puebla to San Carlos: The Journeys of the Olavarrieta Collection (1907-1909)

In 1907, artist Gerardo Murillo, Dr. Atl, made an inventory of a 295 piece collection donated to the state by Alejandro Ruiz Olavarrieta, a businessman and politician from Puebla. This REsEARcH proposes an approach to this compilation from the analy sis and systematization of said relationship, through the titles and attributions established by the artist, as well as from the public exhibition organized two years later at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA, for its acronym in Spanish, National School of Fine Arts). This exercise will allow some questions to be asked about the process of conforming and conserving the Academy's collections, and the tracking of some of its pieces today.