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Edited by Idoia Murga Castro and Carmen Gaitán Salinas Avant-garde stage-designer, painter and costume-designer Victorina Durán (Madrid, 1899-1993) –student colleague of Maruja Mallo and Salvador Dalí, professor in Residencia de Señoritas, member of Lyceum Club Femenino or stage-designer of theatrical company Teatro Escuela de Arte (TEA) de Rivas Cherif and Margarita Xirgu– left written the memoirs of her fascinating biography in three volumes that, for the first time, are being published: Sucedió, El Rastro. Vida de lo inanimado and Así es. Published under the same title Mi vida, she narrates how she was brought up and began to thrive in the world of art, how she discovered her attraction towards women and lived her love affairs, or how she dealt with the consequences of Spanish Civil War, the exile in Buenos Aires and her difficult return to Spain.

Volume 1. SUCEDIÓ
In the first volume of this trilogy, Sucedió, Victorina Durán narrates her professional career, from her studies in the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Museo de Artes Decorativas, to her activity in Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, while telling anecdotes of her family and friends, among them Valle-Inclán, Rosa Chacel, Margarita Xirgu or Natalio Botana, to whom she dedicates several chapters.

PAPERBACK 14 x 21,5 cm.
ISBN: 978-84-946717-8-4
384 pp.