José Moreno Villa reinterprets in this canvas the theme of the three Graces through a clearly contemporary optic, although the three protagonists embrace each other forming a circle, as they do in Renaissance paintings and in some ancient sculptures. The artist seeks dynamism and rhythm obtained from the juxtaposition of nuanced shapes and colours, all arranged in a balanced and studied composition, vibrant and eloquent.

A multidisciplinary artist belonging to the Generation of 1927, José Moreno Villa was a poet, columnist, critic, art historian, draughtsman and painter, and during the Second Spanish Republic he was director of the National Palace Archive. At the outbreak of the Civil War he went into exile in America, settling...