José María Barreiro turns the glove to the folkloric subject in this oil painting with a couple of Galician musicians (a piper, a drummer) resolved with a post-fauve palette. Barreiro held his first solo exhibition in 1961, and two years later he undertook a study trip through Europe that took him to Paris.

There he studied the French school and exhibited his work, which he also did in Belgium and Germany. Between 1965 and 1966 he painted a series of murals in commercial houses in Vigo, where he exhibited his work in 1967 at the Velázquez Gallery. In the following years he held exhibitions in different Spanish cities, and in 1969 he made a trip to Argentina, where he held a new exhibition. Settled in Buenos Aires, he combines p...