By Pascual Bueno Ferrer
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Artist: Pascual Bueno Ferrer (b. 1930)
Title: Pensamiento “Nena” (verso inscription)
Date: circa 1975
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 81 × 65 cm (31.9 × 25.6 in)
Signature: Signed lower right
Inscription: Titled and dated on reverse
Style: Post-Impressionist Figurative
Condition: Good overall condition. Stable paint layer and firm canvas. Minor age wear consistent with period.
Frame: Unframed
Location: Sitges, Spain
Category: Paintings
Subcategory: Portraits
Materials: Oil, Canvas
Color Palette: Soft neutrals, warm cream, muted green, earth tones
Orientation: Vertical
A large mid-century Spanish female portrait executed in oil on canvas, circa 1975.
The composition captures a young woman standing by a window, immersed in quiet introspection. Soft, diffused light enters from the left, gently modeling the figure and enhancing the delicate tonal transitions in her face and dress.
The restrained palette of warm creams, muted greens and earthy browns creates a serene, romantic atmosphere. The loose, atmospheric brushwork situates the painting within a post-impressionist figurative tradition, emphasizing mood over strict realism.
With its generous scale (81 × 65 cm / 31.9 × 25.6 in), the piece offers strong decorative presence while maintaining an intimate emotional tone.
An elegant and affordable example of Spanish mid-20th-century figurative painting, ideal for collectors or refined interior settings.
Pascual Bueno Ferrer (b. 1930) is a Catalan painter trained at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. His career includes exhibitions in Spain and abroad, with a body of work centered on portraiture, landscape and still life. His painting combines expressive color with a lyrical, figurative sensibility characteristic of postwar Spanish art.
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