Francisco García Abuja (1924-2013) - Old Madrid: A View...

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Labels from the 1949 Ibero-American Exhibition in Buenos Aires, and a packing flyer for the Salón Macarrón. - The pinnacle figure of Spanish neo-figurative art, Francisco García Abuja —the sage of the brush and a true ascetic of matter— dedicated his life to cultivating an art of devotion almost mystical in its attention to detail and intimate lyricism. After finishing with distinguished mastery at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and earning laurels in the most prestigious centers of creation of the era—from El Paular to Granada and the Fundación Juan March—the master unfolded in small format a universe of fascinating poetry, where the meticulous precision of his still lifes and the bold satire of his portraits dialogued in a unique dialogue between technical rigor and a humor tinged with magico-surrealist resonances. Married in fertile creative communion with painter Nellina Pistolesi and tireless researcher in the use of beeswax, encaustic, and collage, Abuja turned his works into reliquaries of texture and evanescent light, immortalizing his genius in Madrid and Valladolid’s distinguished galleries as a goldsmith of the soul whose aesthetic quest transcends time. - Before the official grandeur of the Royal Palace and the old Casa de Campo, Francisco García Abuja’s gaze in this 1949 view does not seek monumental triumph or regime grandiloquence, but the melancholic and restrained atmosphere of a Madrid in full “time of quiet.” The postwar generation of artists took on the arduous challenge of portraying a gray and convalescent capital, exhausted after the conflict and silenced by censorship, where painting had to operate as a subtle record of daily life. With a sober palette of somber greens, earthy ochres, and a leaden sky that softens the light, Abuja strips the scene of any vivid rhetoric: the architecture rises severe and solitary in the background, the imposing trees seem to keep mourning in the shadows, and barely two anonymous silhouettes walk beside the fountain, reduced to minimal testimonies of urban existence. It is the neo-figurative language of an introspective and dignified Madrid, where the search for air and light does not serve to evade reality, but to bear witness to the quiet yet firm pulse of a city that resists in its own shadows. - Image dimensions without frame: 100 x 85 cm / 111 x 96 cm with exclusive custom frame. At Montbaron Gallery, we are pleased to offer our clients an exclusive selection of artworks, all of them unique, original, and unrepeatable. Every piece in our gallery is the result of deep dedication, a creative vision, and masterful technique—qualities that guarantee its authenticity. 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