Álvaro Delgado

Born on Esperanza Street in Madrid, very close to the Antón Martín and Lavapiés squares, places that he later reflected in the landscapes of his early period such as Madrid from the Manzanares, The Toledo Bridge or The Hermitage of San Isidro, Álvaro He was the eldest of two brothers.

Delgado was essentially a painter of landscapes, still lifes and portraits of a wide circle of painters, art critics and personalities of Spanish cultural life, or of thematic monographs, such as his series on Goya's The Executions of the Third of May (1960), or the peasants of La Olmeda.6 With a nervous and strongly expressionist line, Delgado exaggerates the physical features and soul of the character. The portrait genre was so decisive for him that he dedicated his entrance speech to it at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1974.