This work is an excellent example of the landscape skills of this painter and engraver from Madrid.

The artist borrowed his nom de plume from his father, the painter and stage designer José González, known as Redondela, from whom he inherited a taste for art. In the mid 1940s he became acquainted with members of the so-called Schoolof Madrid. A connoisseur of the historical avant-gardes—particularly of , Expressionism and —his art practice progressed towards a more personal style that disregarded changing fashions.

Although he was also a painter of portraits and still lifes, landscape was the main focus of his work. In the 1950s he travelled widely throughout Spain in the company of his friend, the painter Cirilo Martínez Novillo (1921-2008), making sketches from life that he would later use in the studio to create his paintings.

This is a mid-career work,similar to another painting by the artist (P00967) also in the BBVA Collection, in which the Fauve tones from the 1950s and the Baroque elements from some previous compositions are now gone. The artist has synthesised the details of the landscape and sketched the houses in a sober palette. The image reminds us of an austere and gloomy post-war landscape, but rendered with an elegant, carefully executed and intimate composition.