Based in Paris from 1947, Orlando Pelayo was an expert on Spanish Golden Age culture and painting. A great admirer of El Greco and Velázquez, in 1962 he began to revisit their style in his own work. This is clearly reflected, for example, in En Hommage à D. V. de S., from 1984, the canvas in the Masaveu Collection in which he represents a whole cast of figures that are metamorphosed as hermetic beings but recall the universe portrayed by Velázquez in Las Meninas. Placed in an unreal setting with certain spatial connotations, bathed in an immanent, diffuse light and rendered with his usual palette of greens, pinks, ochres and mauves, they appear as phantasmagorical masses. 

The author of a highly personal oeuvre that defies easy classification, from Asturias José María Navascués (Madrid, 1934–Oviedo, 1979) made an important contribution to the revival of sculpture and the design of furniture and interiors until his untimely death in 1979. The exhibition features two representative works from his two most characteristic periods: Pilot, from 1975, and Wood + Colour, from 1979.