Illness and quarrel in Seville

22/1/26 - Acquisitions - Seville, Museo de Bellas Artes - Acquisitions - Seville, Museo de Bellas Artes - The center of the composition is empty, or rather it is occupied by the tile floor of the room, whose shades can be observed at leisure, animated by a play of light and shadow. This is a perfect evocation of waiting. The air is dull, weary, tired; three people sit in a row, squeezed between two doors, relegated to a corner of the vestibule and the canvas: an elderly resigned woman, a worried mother leaning over her infant, a worker with his arm in a sling staring into space. A little girl appears in silhouette in the doorway, scarcely livelier than the others. All stages of life are thus evoked in this waiting room. The painter, Luisa Puiggener, titled her work Free Consultation…