Spanish School (1970s) - Portrait In A Cocktail Dress

Oil on panel. Dated June 1970.

There she is, icy and golden, an immaculate apparition of white silk that imposes itself—with the subtle disdain of blue blood—upon the gray puzzle of a domesticated Cubism. The painting is the notarized testimony of a marriage of convenience—inevitable and so characteristic of its era—in which the avant-garde, already lukewarm and transformed into an elegant tapestry, submits unconditionally to the carnal attributes of opulence. She is the heir to all of this, the perfect, blonde trophy of a capitalism that allows itself the luxury of flirting with abstraction, provided the portrait is flattering. Her features are not broken—no; geometry simply envelops her like precious wrapping paper, in a gray scale of planes that feign rebellion but serve only to emphasize, through their stony, cement-like coldness, the radiant and provocative youth of a woman born to adorn the world without ruffling a single hair.

- Unframed image dimensions: 65 x 80 cm / 80 x 96 cm with an exclusive custom frame.