Enrique Lorrio (1940–?) - The Skin Of Spain

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Signed and dated by hand.

- Spain is depicted in this painting by Enrique Lorrío not as the tragic myth of “Black Spain,” but as an austere, barefoot nymph, her complexion a blend of toasted wheat, straw, and the sacred geometry of the plateau. In the architecture of its layers—where the paint builds up in furrows ablaze with ochre, vermilion, and ash—pulses the same devotion to the brown, austere earth that obsessed Juan Manuel Díaz Caneja. It is impossible to contemplate this mosaic of plots enclosed beneath a stormy sky without thinking of Caneja; this tireless observer of Castilian landscapes, from the window of his cell at the Ocaña penitentiary, laid bare the fields of Spain until he reduced them to their essential truth: a lyrical, mineral body, polished by light, where beauty is neither concession nor ornament, but the pure and absolute permanence of the earth.

- Dimensions of the unframed work: 65 x 48 cm / 85 x 68 cm with an exclusive, custom-made frame.