Sanguine on paper. signed lower right. Celada, who loved to paint women both in portraiture and in his figure studies, proposes a female body, firm and classicizing both in forms and in references to the painting of the past. Celada's painting is capable of blocking in time and space reality, in a way that appears detached, analytical
and scientifically exact (colours, reflections, transparencies),
but communicating - as opposed to a total unreality - a great narrative pathos. The work is presented in a frame.