Gerardo Delgado

(Olivares, Sevilla, 1942 - 2024)

Stones: Self-Portrait series. The Artist at the Window (Diptych)

1993-1995

Mixed media on canvas

185.5 x 290 cm

Inv. no. 36008


ACAC. BBVA Collection (on deposit at Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid)

Gerardo Delgado is one of the most outstanding artists in
in Spain since the late 1960s. Throughout his continuously evolving career, he has researched into and experimented with form, colour and space.

In Stones: Self-Portrait series. The Artist at the Window, Delgado explores the relationship between form, matter and space during a phase in which he began to add more organic elements to his personal brand of
. Rather than depicting stones literally, this work evokes their weight and solidity through a palette of grey and black tones and planes that seem to be fragments of a single block split in two.

The diptych functions as a dialogue. Although each panel tells its own story, together they create a visual unity that invites reflection on fracture and balance. The work couples the artist’s signature architectural rigour with a more intuitive sensibility, typical of the 1990s, when his painting acquired greater texture and material presence.

Stones: Self-Portrait series. The Artist at the Window reflects Delgado’s maturity in a precise form of abstraction that nonetheless stands out for the force with which it fills the space with its presence.