In this painting, Grau Santos offers an early but already representative example of his creative output.

Convinced that nature does not imitate art but also that art does not demean nature, Grau Santos continues along a path outlined by Post-Impressionism when he depicts the rhythm of modern life from such a heartfelt approach that could only be defined as intimate.

In the wake of the teachings of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Grau Santos fuses drawing and colour in a radical synthesis. He captures the flow of the everyday, and re-elaborates it through a refined blend of light and colour, bringing it to life not inasmuch as forms per se, but as the outcome of that fusion. This method is borne out in this everyday scene rendered with quick, energetic and nervy brushstrokes and flowing marks with which the artist builds the figures spreading across the canvas.

This interior with a solitary figure speaks to the legacy of French Post-Impressionism, both in terms of technique and subject matter, to which Grau Santos adds a more contemporary expressiveness. Particularly noteworthy here is the study of the changes introduced by the variations of lights in the forms and colours, responding to his intention to capture the liveliness of the everyday. His intimate poetics, predicated on a refined awareness of colour and light, is charged with exceptional potency and a heightened formal quality.