FEDERICO BERMÚDEZ GIL (Málaga, 1865-1957). "Tajo de Miraflores (Torremolinos)". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Original frame. This work participated in the exhibition organised by the San Telmo Academy during the 1947 Winter Games in Malaga, in homage to the 19th century painters of Malaga. Size: 76 x 101 cm; 94 x 118 cm (frame). Federico Bermúdez Gil was a painter from Malaga who is especially remembered for his luminous palette and the quality of his rural subjects, in which he immortalised the Andalusian landscape: its streams and hamlets, its coast and its springs. In the present painting, the urban centre of Torremolinos was still a small fishing village. We can make it out in the distance through this singular frame taken from a certain height, so that the rocky terrain is in the foreground. It is a daring and suggestive frame that seeks an expressive contrast between the rotund rocks sculpted by the wind and the peaceful line of the sea horizon. Bermúdez Gil was one of Malaga's most outstanding landscape painters, winning an honourable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1892, a silver medal at the Regional Exhibition of 1893 and a third medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1897. He was a professor and director of the School of Fine Arts and Crafts in Malaga, a member of the Royal Academy of San Fernando and San Telmo, a favourite son of the city of Malaga, Knight of the Royal Order of Alfonso X the Wise, Vatican gold medal and gold medal of Valencia.