This splendid painting of four blue self-portraits is both rigorous and at once mysterious, two major features of the artist.

Sáez is a member of the generation which emerged in the eighties, and during that period he investigated the playful facet of painting in a refined idiom. Having definitively abandoned neo-expressionist matter painting, he adopted a stylised figurative mode with very distinct forms meticulously and immaculately executed, in which figures and objects cross the boundary between reality and fiction and enter a static world of stereotypes, close to that of heraldic imagery.

He developed a very personal aesthetic, characterised by refined draughtsmanship, which allowed him to investigate colour, figures, nature and the world of objects. His work places the viewer between the conceptual and the sensory.

In this painting with its cloned characters, represented in a restricted range of soft colour, the mirror image is sharply defined against the uniform monochrome background.

Sáez’s compositions present a succession of conceptual paradoxes and non-connected representations which challenge the viewer’s perceptions.