Darío de Regoyos: 6 works

'"This work is of Darío de Regoyos (Ribadeselles, Asturias, 1857 -- Barcelona, 1913) a Spanish painter but temporally established in Belgium where he acquired his artistic technique influenced by painters like Théo Van Rysselberghe, which followed in his pointillist career.'

'Regoyos achieved depth in the landscape by grading the mauve, brown and green tones to obtain a skilful portrayal of light and landscape.'

'Regoyos loved the Basque Country for the muted light which allowed him to capture it in all its variations and to find in nature the best model for his oils. As an Impressionist, he believed that an artist could paint different scenes without having to travel: he only needed to observe changes in the light or the weather.'

'For Regoyos, as for several painters of his time or somewhat earlier (Fortuny, Moragas, Martín Rico, Rusiñol, Casas, Utrillo, Barrau, Mas i Fondevila, Cecilio Pla, Pichot and Sorolla), Granada was an almost magical place, which exerted a pronounced magnetism on artists and writers and was thus a positive pole of attraction.'

'As an anecdotal motif, Regoyos included a red parasol of the type often found in the Impressionist paintings of Monet and his close friend Camille Pissarro.'

'The smoke of industrial and technical progress (factories, railways) was often an element that Regoyos liked to paint in his pictures, as had already happened sporadically in the work of certain French Impressionists. Catalonian painter Marià Pidelaserra, with whose art that of Regoyos had so much in common, also started to paint industrial themes on her return from Paris in 1901.'