Dario De Regoyos

*May Rain, Basque Country*, dated 1902, is set in northern Spain, specifically the Basque Country, which Dario de Regoyos held in such high regard. It is a symphony of bluish mauves and shimmering greens, to which a spring shower has just restored their full lustre. Despite the downpour, work in the fields has not been interrupted; the farmers continue to labour. The composition divides the cultivated plots into different colours, whilst in the background stretches the undulating mass of dark mountains. To better capture the light, the artist employs a varied technique: fragmented brushstrokes in the foreground and very loose brushwork in the mass of clouds and the bluish shadows of the mountains. Regoyos remained, until the end of his life, a lover of nature, which he painted with lyricism and poetry. A landscape painter with a pantheistic vision, practising a highly personal form of Impressionism, he was certainly one of the first to use this technique and the leading representative of this movement in Spain.

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