In this small-format canvas, Joan Ponç uses a dark palette but dotted with points of twilight, which imbues the surface with the halo of mystery to which we have become accustomed throughout his career. The sphere presiding over the composition forms a cosmos in itself, in which the telluric and stellar universes converge. A painter and draughtsman, he trained in Barcelona, in the studio of Ramón Rogent and at the Academy of Plastic Arts with Ángel López-Obrero.

He held his first individual exhibition in 1946, at the Galería Arte in Bilbao, which marked his definitive consolidation on the national art scene. In 1948, together with Tharrats, Puig, Cuixart, Tàpies and Brossa, among others, he founded the avant...