José Beulas

(Santa Coloma de Farnés, Gerona, 1921 - Huesca, 2017)

Gerona

1963

oil on canvas

81 x 130,4 cm

Inv. no. 125

BBVA Collection Spain


A brilliant interpretation of Gerona, the city in Catalonia, rendered in a painterly tone that connects Beulas to other practitioners like Benjamín Palencia, both in his way of organising the canvas in planes of colour and also in the prevalence of earthy hues in his palette.
The high horizon gives greater prominence to the dry and earthy—quasi cubist—geometries, with the linear edges and planes of the houses merging in an austere and almost monochrome palette.