Rodrigo Báez achieved consummate control as a painter in his early period, from which this work comes. He started out working within an expressive and gestural abstraction indebted to the Informalismo movement that influenced so many Spanish painters from the 1960s onwards.
 
The work in hand is a highly powerful, expressive work with a bold choice of colour, judiciously balancing orange and green. The bottom section of the canvas contains some discreetly arranged calligraphic signs—arrows, dot lines—which would become much more prominent in his latest production.
 
This piece was presented for the first time in an exhibition organised by Caja Postal, touring to the cities of Jerez, Cordoba, Granada and Huelva.