Almost all genres make their appearance in the work of this Catalan artist, a true connoisseur of the secrets of colour, light and harmony. He bathed his painting in Mediterranean light using a range of impastoed grey, white, black and blue colours with subtle nuances; in short, a crystalline chromaticism within a cool spectrum.

Besides anecdotes, he also painted nudes, landscapes and still lifes in which the colour throbs with a life of its own. The sea makes a regular appearance in his landscapes, as does town and cityscapes from both Cadaqués and Paris. His still lifes, on the other hand, are usually austere groupings of jugs or bottles, as in the case of the work from the BBVA collection, occasionally coupled with other elements.

Aguilar usually started out with a series of quick sketches from nature which he then used to compose his paintings back in the studio. The importance of drawing within his creative process meant that, as the artist himself declared, lines and colours operated independently in such a way that when blotches of colour overstep the boundaries of the lines, the paintings take on greater life.

His practice from the seventies, to which this still life can possibly be dated, was the end result of continuous experimentation and the learnings he gleaned from various movements, though one could particularly underscore the constructive quality of and the freedom of form and colour inherited from .