These two magnificent compositions are good examples of how Navarro Baldeweg combines the abstract and the figurative in a masterly fashion in his work.

After experimenting with installations he returned to painting in the seventies, gradually incorporating a very schematic figurative element into his work. It was then that he opted for creating chromatically sumptuous thematic groups in which the influence of Matisse (1869-1954) is evident.

His serial works constitute a break with the traditional idea of representation, being based on formal variation and on differences. None of them consists of just a single model.

A clear example can be seen in this pair of works on paper inspired by the Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus, narrated by Ovid. The image concentrates its markedly symmetrical form in a few strokes in various different colours, showing that quest for the essential reduced to image, plane and structure.