The practice of this painter from Valencia reached a high level of modernism and painterly quality yet without ever relinquishing figuration, leaving behind the prevailing bias towards the aesthetic dictatorship of Sorollismo in Valencia, so-called after the painter Joaquín Sorolla.
 
In the early stages of his career Lahuerta moved towards Expressionism, although he also admired the Italian Quattrocento. In the 1950s he was drawn to the

of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), as can be seen in the heightened colouring of his painting, with an intense palette that nonetheless never renounced his compositional simplicity.
 
Together with Francisco Lozano (1912-2000), Lahuerta was the most influential exponent of Valencia’s post-war landscape painting, reaching his creative peak in this subject matter in the 1960s. With a modulated brushstroke, not as explosive as Lozano’s, Lahuerta succeeds in capturing the simplicity of his surrounding environs with great sensuousness, based on a wise use of colour and a masterly treatment of light to convey a higher lyrical expressiveness.
 
This picturesque view of a refreshment stand on Albir beach, near Alicante, shows the artist’s liking for colour, indebted to his interest in , which he applies in smooth brushstrokes, giving greater import to the architecture and landscape over the barely sketched characters. He skilfully resolves the contrasting light and involves the beholder in the peaceful calm of a sunny day on the beach.