DARÍO DE REGOYOS | STORM IN THE PYRENEES

Juan San Nicolás Santamaría, Darío de Regoyos, vol. I, Barcelona, 1990, p. 225, no. 47, catalogued & illustrated (as Tempestad en los Pireneos and dated 1885)

Darío de Regoyos 1857-1913, La aventura impresionista, exh. cat., Bilbao, 2013, p. 54, fig. 4, catalogued & illustrated (as Tempestad en los Pireneos)

Brussels, III Salon des XX, 1886

Madrid, Dirección General de Bellas Artes, 1892

Barcelona, Ayuntamiento Constitucional, III Exposición de Bellas Artes e Industrias Artísticas, 1896

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1897 

Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Darío de Regoyos, 1987, p. 109, no. 19

Painted in 1885.

In 1879 Regoyos had moved to Brussels, a defining journey for the artist. Here, he became friends with members of the avant garde Les XX, before joining the group himself. Les XX were closely attuned to the 'New Painting', later known as Impressionism, in France. From the 1890s, the influence of the Belgian and the French Post-Impressionists became ever more present in Regoyos' work. As in the present work, Regoyos' fondness for Spain found expression in the lyrical and emotive enthusiasm translated in his beautiful landscapes and scenes of everyday Spanish life.