Anochecer en la escollera III

The escollera or breakwater of Valencia’s harbour was made up of sandstone blocks taken from the El Puig quarries and piled up against the quays to break the force of the waves. It was a place for solitude, set apart from the summer crowds on the beaches. It was upon this place, and upon those who sought the quiet peace of the infinite there, that Ignacio Pinazo set his gaze, as we can see in this work. In Anochecer III, Ignacio Pinazo made a large format version of his habitual compositional structure, with denser spots of colour, sketching a reality which transmits peacefulness and melancholy whilst endowing the work with a sense of being unfinished. This provides it with a modernity which is atypical of its nineteenth century context.