(…) transparent allegory, in ochres, greys, reds and blacks, of the murder of Federico García Lorca, a picture he began to paint in New York and finished in Madrid, and of which he was to make new versions on two more occasions (1979-1980 and 1989).

JUAN MANUEL BONET

The version from 1966 is like the image of a bleeding wound. It is an approach, the first sight of the location of a tragedy, against which there is no alternative but the irreparable anguish of pain and rupture. Recomposition is impossible because the pain is too recent and intense.

SANTIAGO B. OLMO