Bidspirit auction | Portrait of an old man,

Portrait of an old man, signed. Spanish School. 20th century - Oil on canvas. Dimensions 46 x 39 / 55 x 47 cm. Bust portrait of an elderly man wearing a dark hat, turned in foreshortening and captured with a lively expression that combines irony, weariness, and humanity. The neutral, tenebrist background enhances the focus on the face, where loose, vibrant brushstrokes effectively construct the wrinkles, the graying beard, and the reddish tones of the skin. The composition relies on a play of warm light and deep shadows that recalls the tradition of character portraiture, reinterpreted with modern sensibility and a free execution. The work stands out for its expressive immediacy and its interest in the psychology of the sitter, within a 20th-century Spanish pictorial language attentive to the power of gesture and the rich texture of the surface. A signature is visible, although its authorship cannot be definitively confirmed based solely on the image.