An excellent example of the more abstract and lyrical output by this Basque painter, this canvas allows us to pinpoint a specific moment in his life’s work, given that it was painted the same year as he obtained the II Basque Painting Award at the Venice Biennale.

This piece belongs to the period when Echevarría, a constantly evolving artist, began to engage with an abstract style full of striking dramatic tones, expressionist nuances and an evocative palette of colours.

His development as an artist is a good reflection of his restless personality. A nephew of the painter Juan de Echevarría (1875-1931), he began working in a figurative vernacular rooted in expressionism though without eschewing such traditional genres as portraiture; and from there he moved to full abstraction only to return later to figuration, yet without ever relinquishing colour—the groundbase of his language as a painter—which he coupled with his mastery of technique and a relentless investigation into matter.