Bidspirit auction | Rural Landscape. Manuel Sánchez Arcenegui

Rural Landscape. Manuel Sánchez Arcenegui (Seville, 1944). Spanish School. 20th Century - Oil on panel. The work energetically and chromatically captures a corner of popular Spanish architecture, characterized by crowded houses, whitewashed walls, stone facades, and tiled roofs. The curved path that runs through the scene introduces compositional dynamism and embraces both masonry walls and ochre and reddish walls of great expressive power. The use of a palette knife, broad, impasto brushstrokes, and an intense palette of earth tones and greens reinforce the painting's expressionist character. The effect of diffused light and overcast sky creates a nostalgic atmosphere, underscoring the visual power of the scene. The piece is part of contemporary Spanish landscape painting, notable for its material vigor and evocative sensitivity to the rural. Dimensions: 90 x 80 cm.