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His painting evolved (at times in connivance with the work of his contemporary Ortiz de Elgea, another leading member of the Orain group) into a short figurative phase in the early 1970s, moving on to a profoundly melancholic, intensely poetic abstract art of heavy, blended colours, structured in irregular blocks of unstable composition, which in some respects recall Poliakoff's assembled forms. This episode led to a messy abstraction of sordid colours with thick impasto, which lets the spectator see how the paint has splurged directly from the tube. Painting is a work from this phase. [Javier Viar]

Selected bibliography

• Guía Artistas Vascos. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2008. pp. 152-153.
• Gida Euskal Artistak. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Eder Museoa, 2008. pp. 152-153.
• Guide Basque Artists. Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2012. pp. 152-153, n° cat. 84b.
• Viar, Javier. Historia del arte vasco : de la Guerra Civil a nuestros días, 1936-2016. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2017. pp. 214-215, il.