Collection
The Banco de España Collection has six works by Carmen Laffón including landscapes, still-lifes and portraits, the three genres in which this painstaking, poetic painter specialised over a career spanning more than half a century. Seville (1962) shows a landscape set in the capital of Andalusia, painted from a rooftop: a city seen from above, silent and exultant with light. In the foreground is a still-life with a composition clearly reminiscent of Zurbaran, which contains objects associated with Seville and women's accessories such as a lace mantilla and a sprig of orange blossom. The picture sums up and illustrates Laffón's work as an artist who in her later years began to subtly blur her forms by using more open brush-strokes, but always maintained a high degree of consistency in her forms of expression and her iconography. She continued to depict humble, everyday motifs, into which she breathed emotion by bathing them in golden light.
Other works by Carmen Laffón