Most of the works revolve around women. This beautiful and well-made contour study on a gloomy background belongs to “Chiquitas Buenas” painted between 1927 and 1928. The protagonist of this painting is Maria Teresa Lopez, the same model that stands in...
The painter continues the tradition on portraits in Andalusian paintings and bring us the memory of the Seville Baroque School. This feminine portrait belongs to the last period of the painter, called “Chiquitas Buenas”. The model standing it is the same...
This canvas is part of the group of portraits with similar characteristics that Romero de Torres executed between 1927 and 1928, called “good girls”, in which the face of a woman trapped in a neutral background becomes an object of representation. It is not a...
This portrait from 1927 represents one of the popular female types so characteristic of the painter, although an evolution can be seen that enriches the typology with the incorporation of symbols and the use of a tenebrist palette. The model is represented up to the...
Popular realism in the work of Julio Romero de Torres is maintained recurrently throughout his production. This portrait is part of the series of popular female types called “good girls”, from the last years of its production. It represents a young woman in three...
This work was painted during the artist’s maturity period, in which he carried out the series called “Chiquitas Buenas”. This work belongs to this series. This painting gathers a combination of feelings. It was the result of the contemplation of...
This feminine portrait depicting Magdalena Muñoz Cobo was started in 1928. He wanted to gift it to her as wedding present, but unfortunately he cannot be able to finish it due his death. Romero de Torres painted this work for the niece of a close friend, the general...
Among the portraits by Romero de Torres we find this one of the actress Marichu Begoña represented as Diana the huntress accompanied by Pacheco, the painter’s greyhound who served as a model so many times. The actress, blonde and with her hair styled in the...
It is a portrait of Félix de Huerta Calopa, a close friend of the artist, painted in 1928. The painting was donated to the Julio Romero de Torres Museum by the daughter of the man who ordered the portrait, Elena Huerta. It is a piece of a great compositional quality...
In the production of Julio Romero de Torres we find the genre of portrait developed widely. Its popular types, perhaps, are the most widespread, although high society also found a place in its production. Coinciding with his arrival in Madrid in 1916 to attend to his...
This canvas was the first masterpiece that Romero de Torres executed in his lifetime. It is a 1928 study where it appears partly the contour of a young woman, hair-dressed in an amazing bun leaning over her nape of the neck. In this delicate subject, the artist...
Work from 1928. Cristobal de Castro was born in the Villa de Iznajar (Cordoba). He married the artist Mary Carbone, also painted by Romero de Torres. Romero de Torres painted only a few masculine portraits; among them, the paintings of his closest friends, like the...
