ISABEL ESTEVA ORTIGA (Barcelona, 1958) "Bathtub", 1983. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 110 x 205 cm; 115 x 210 cm (frame). Painter and photographer who finds the essence in the representation of nature and its states, as well as in the Mediterranean culture. Rhythms, shadows, colors and lights that wrap images that under an apparent austerity evoke us to the origins of our existence. His production dispenses with any superfluous element to ennoble the expressiveness of lines and colors in an approach to primitivism and simplicity.

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