This painting shows Mercadé as he approaches his maturity as a painter, characterised by a process of increasing abstraction of reality. The evolution of his painting is evident if we compare this work with another one in the BBVA Collection, titled Paisatge de Picamoixons, where the formal boldness we see in this piece is absent.

Colour plays a major role in Mercadé’s output from the 1940s. The painter conveys reality with the brightest tones in his fauvist palette. This is particularly noticeable in the area of the pitas (agaves), which sprout in strong green from the reddish earth, its complementary colour. Shapes and textures are also different, with an abstraction of the texture of the trunk on the right, and interpreting the green vegetation around it with emphatic forms.

This small fragment of reality is interpreted through Mercadé’s personal perspective.