Darío de Regoyos
The Impressionist Adventure

14 June 2014 - 13 October 2014
Darío de Regoyos

Victims of the Fiesta (Bullfight)

1894 Pastel and oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm Colección Cajastur, depositado en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias
Victims of the Fiesta (Bullfight)
Darío de Regoyos

Vendredi Saint en Castille (Good Friday in Castile)

1904 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65.5 Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Vendredi Saint en Castille (Good Friday in Castile)

Black Spain

In 1888 he travelled around Spain with the poet Émile Verhaeren, who published his impressions of the journey in a magazine on his return to Belgium. Ten years later, the articles were translated and illustrated with wood engravings by Regoyos, and published in book form. This was the famous book called España negra (Black Spain).

Regoyos produced many oil paintings, pastels, watercolours and drawings on the theme, which, until the early years of the 20th century, he alternated with luminous, Impressionist-style landscapes. With their crude symbolism, Victims of the Fiesta (Bullfight, 1894) and Vendredi Saint in Castille (Good Friday in Castile, 1904) are paradigmatic works of this period.