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Address: 1ª Travesía de Santiago de Vigo
First Crossing Santiago de Vigo
Santiago de Vigo
Portrait of X. M. Álvarez Blázquez 

On this street, next to the church of Santiago de Vigo, Laxeiro had his first studio in the city. He settled in Vigo in 1942 with his wife Luisa and daughter Mari Cruz. After setting up a studio in his first home, at 7, García Barbón Street, he soon rented a place in Primera Travesía de Santiago de Vigo Street to be able to work in a space separate from the domestic environment, where he could concentrate and also receive collectors and friends. From that year dates a portrait made of his friend, the poet and member of the Partido Galeguista, Xosé María Álvarez Blázquez, who returned to Vigo in 1942 after his exile in Coreses, Zamora. Xosé María Álvarez Blázquez, who returned to Vigo in 1942 after his exile in Coreses, Zamora.

There are several drawings that illustrate this moment of Laxeiro's arrival in Vigo, in which he incorporates the theme of the cityscapes.

In the background, to the left of this drawing, you can see the Curbera building, built in 1939 and designed by architect Francisco Castro Represas. The Curbera building was then an architectural landmark, becoming, with its fifty meters high, the tallest skyscraper in Galicia. The building is still preserved today in perfect condition. With the reference of the Curbera building, we can geographically locate the place that Laxeiro draws in this work, which seems to be a plot that today would be placed between Rosalía de Castro Street and Areal Street.

Industrial landscape 
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