This piece belongs to the last period of the painter. It is a work from 1929, just one year before his death, when his technique and style were perfectly defined. A young lady stands, nude, holding a bullfighter cape with her left hand that covers her legs. She is...
The art of Julio Romero de Torres reached its peak with this work from 1929-1930. On March 24th 1965 a fragment of “La Chiquita Piconera” (The Coal Little Girl) were taken to issue one series of stamps of Romero de Torres. The scene takes place inside a...
his piece from 1927 is the peculiar and very personal representation of the traditional still-life subject. This composition is the opposite of the inanimate subject, the cold still life of inexpressive fruits and flowers; he combines the still life and the human...
he religious paintings, a traditional Córdoba subject, had to be along the works of Romero de Torres. The painting dates from 1925. The image of the Guardian Angel of Cordoba —the Archangel Saint Raphael— appears in a pedestal of Córdoba silverware. Iconographic...
In this religious painting dating 1928, Julio Romero de Torres used the Mexican model Carmen Gabucio as also in other well-known works. This composition fulfills the baroque idea of this subject and shows the influence of the Baroque Painting School of Cordoba. The...
In this mystical work painted in 1910, the painter depicted Socorro Miranda, a young woman from Cordoba, wearing a black dress and mantilla (a silk scarf worn over the head and shoulders) brightened by the white of her cuffs and collar, that represents the mystic...
The portrait is a female visage of the last period of his lifetime, in 1929. The composition reproduces one of his studies of expression named “Chiquitas Buenas” (Good Little Girls). In spite of being plain and austere in its means, he hold a great...
In this portrait titled Woman of Córdoba, Julio Romero de Torres uses María Teresa López as a model, the one who posed in Córdoba for the definitive version of La Chiquita Piconera and for other portraits. The work is a magnificent example of the series of popular...
Blessing is a portrait that Romero de Torres made around 1926, for which he first took María Teresa López as a model, also being the protagonist of Carmen, Mujer de Córdoba, Ángeles and La Chiquita piconera. The typology of the portrait conforms to that of the “good...
This portrait was made by Romero de Torres in 1928. The naivety and ingenuousness of the young girl is the main feature of this small size canvas. Her dark and bright hair contrasts with the wealthy frame, quilted in gold. Moreover, he replaced his mirror by this...
Julio Romero de Torres stood out for being a great portraitist, a genre that he developed especially during the first two decades of the 20th century, although we find examples throughout the chronology that covers his production. He was interested in a wide variety...
We rarely see childhood represented in the work of Julio Romero de Torres, only anecdotally in his symbolist and realist works and in collective portraits of bourgeois families. The protagonist of this canvas is the son of the doctor and republican Manuel Ruiz Maya....
