This unusual picture reveals the creative eccentricity of this artist compared with other members of his generation, resulting from his contacts with very disparate styles.

He trained as a painter and graphic artist, initially at the School of Applied Arts and subsequently, at the age of just sixteen, at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, where he was taught by the great painter Aurelio Arteta (1879-1940).

His earliest works tended to be urban scenes, still lifes and portraits, in dark colours and an elaborate style. Tango places us in a later period in which simple forms predominate, the figurative elements become more geometric and the colour palette seeks to create strong contrasts, but always with great softness and subtlety.

This is a composition with a very marked degree of symmetry, achieved by superimposing the two entwined couples dancing in a completely timeless setting. It could remind us of the work of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), in that both artists had a taste for depicting women, though in this case the rounded shapes present us with an image that is not idealised but grotesque.