Las Soledades De Lope De Vega

LAS SOLEDADES DE LOPE DE VEGA

1968

Oil on canvas

75.5 × 169 cm

Ayala Museum Collection

Gift of SGV Foundation, Inc.

In this panoramic canvas, Fernando Zóbel (1924-1984) creates one of his most architectural compositions. It takes inspiration from the Italian painter Canalettoʼs View of Whitehall, Looking North (c. 1747), with its high, wide perspective of the London district. Zóbel adopts Canalettoʼs original earthy palette, using line and tonal values to map out Whitehallʼs geometric grid. In the bottom left, an inscription reads: “The solitude of Lope de Vega. Castile remembered. Manilaˮ alongside the date and his signature. Lope de Vega, a prolific late-16th to early-17th-century Spanish writer, is another cultural reference embedded in the work. Together, they reveal Zóbelʼs own erudition. This painting belongs to his Diálogos series, in which he studies and deconstructs works by Old Masters to uncover the thinking behind their compositions, then reinterprets them in the language of abstraction.

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