Associated in the seventies with the French movement which he was to introduce into Spain, León’s work has always been played out within the confines of . His period spent in New York, at a time when the city had taken over from Paris as the centre of the art world, proved instrumental for his later creative process.

This work from the BBVA Collection comes from his first period in New York, where he had moved in 1985 thanks to a scholarship awarded by the Comité Conjunto Hispano-norteamericano. This composition is a lyrical evocation of both landscape and figure, which fuse together to give life to the artist’s highly personal universe. His painting straddles the boundary between figuration and abstraction, a space where the object is blurred and absorbed into the territory within which it is depicted. Geometry, another key element underpinning his creations, is more visible in some phases of his career.

His constant experimentation with supports, on which he always painted with his hands, led him to replace the canvases which he had used in his early creations with sheets of translucent polyester, on which he superimposes various layers of paint, and with dibond, a panel of composite aluminium with a cold, industrial and anonymous look.

Over recent years he has been working on a series of sculptures, bordering on installation, which fuse objects and space.