Don Rosendo in the Night Watch

Her ability to interpret the outside world has made her a specialist in the portrait genre, stripping it of its commercial nature in order to give it a testimonial feature. In Don Rosendo en la ronda nocturna (Don Rosendo in the Night Watch), she makes a clear allusion to captain Frans Banning Cocq’s guards immortalized by Rembrandt van Rijn in The Night Watch (1642), in order to make a collective portrait with characters from Guadalajara’s culture. She uses the movie theater Roxy, an important venue of the time, as stage, whose facade appears in the background.

Towards the front appears Don Rosendo, regular attendee of the exhibitions inaugurated in the city. A quiet character that everyone loved, without knowing anything about him, who appeared with a smile on his face and a glass in his hand at all the galleries.