Spanish School of the XIX century

Spanish School of the XIX century.
"Marina".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 80 x 150 cm; 102 x 172 cm (frame).
In this work Segundo Matilla offers us a melancholic and evocative landscape, a sample of the lyricism of the everyday, of the poetry hidden behind the known and close landscape. He develops a composition of great simplicity, based on the horizontal plane of the earth, which delimits the two halves of the painting, different in amplitude. In fact, behind the narrow and bright strip of the sea rises a wide sky worked with exquisite sensitivity based on very slight tonal variations and points of light, reflecting with naturalism and poetry the imposing beauty of the dawn sky, its double quality, cold in the atmosphere and warm in the light, perfectly harmonious. In the foreground this omnipresent sky is multiplied through the reflections in the water, smooth as a mirror and worked with a lightness that seeks contrast with the solidity of the land, of darker and opaque tonalities, on which rest moored boats. The human presence is inserted in this canvas through the fishermen who work by the sea.