Escarcha: Puerto de Cabrejas

ESCARCHA: PUERTO DE CABREJAS

1967

Oil on canvas

61 × 61 cm

Ayala Museum Collection

Gift of Ayala Corporation

Fernando Zóbel often found inspiration in the historic and dramatic environs of Cuenca, where he settled and founded a museum in the 1966. An 1846 geographical survey of Spain described the town of Puerto de Cabrejas as a Jewish village of 13 households, located on a hill, surrounded by a mixture of flatlands, forested hills, stony slopes, and ravines. Today, it is an abandoned town located along the freeway that extends from Toledo to Cuenca, Autovía A-40. In recent years, the site has gained popularity for tourists to enjoy nature trails and outdoor activities. Painted on the 13ᵗʰ of December 1967, Zóbelʼs composition captures echoes of the winter frost and semi-arid soil of Castille-La Mancha in central Spain—an ode to the dramatic terrain of the Iberian Peninsula

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