RAFEL SIMONET CASTRO (1906-1989).
"Landscape with Trees", 1928.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 57.5 x 57.5 cm; 70 x 72 cm (frame).
In this work the author, from a frontal point of view, manages to capture the delicate essence of the nosque that make up the scene, through soft and controlled touches that leave the drawing in the background. The volumes are defined by the play of light and colour, and the lines disappear. In this work, the shadows create an atmosphere of intimacy and seclusion in relation to the scene that the author presents to us.
Rafael Simone Castro followed in the artistic footsteps of his father, the renowned painter Enrique Simonet (Valencia, 1863 - Madrid, 1927), who was a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, the School of Fine Arts in Madrid and a director of the El Paular Residence for Landscape Artists. He inherited from his father a taste for landscape and a great interest in capturing the effects of light, close to the Luminists and the Impressionists.