Early in his career José María Sicilia painted several series of monochrome paintings, as well as numerous canvases in which isolated images floated on backgrounds spotted with white. Later he started using wax as well as paint, and he has continued to use both materials, never abandoning traditional pictorial techniques though at times he may seem to want to conceal them, burying oil paint and watercolor beneath layers of wax that act like translucent curtains through which one can only glimpse the underlying imagery.

In this exhibition, four different series of works were grouped together in