Isidro Parra (1925–2007) — The Angel Of Prophecy

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Hand-signed.

- In this striking oil painting by Isidro Parra, from his early period characterized by earthy tones (circa 1960), the figure of an angel of overwhelming beauty and with a stern grimace emerges, unequivocally evoking Michael from Milton’s *Paradise Lost*. Like the archangel charged with expelling the descendants of Adam, this celestial guardian stands watch at the gates of Eden with unshakable solemnity, sculpted in the bold lines and vibrant texture that characterize the artist’s early expressionism. His countenance, far from any mystical gentleness, exudes an authority that is at once melancholic and austere; his fixed and unyielding gaze seems to foretell to humanity the immediate future of pain, sweat, and death that awaits it, as well as its ultimate, inescapable destiny: the promise of redemption and the vision of *Paradise Regained*. All of this is reflected in the stern dignity of his bearing as, with his hand resting on his chest, he watches over that lost threshold that humanity will never again be able to cross.

- Dimensions of the unframed artwork: 71 x 90 cm / 88 x 106 cm with an exclusive, custom-made frame.