ABOUT THE WORK

Fernando Zobel’s oeuvre has put on display a very refined and intellectual brand of abstraction. Drawing inspiration from calligraphy and Chinese brush strokes, the vigorous nature of Zobel’s approach flaunts his penchant for the dynamic. For the renowned artist, distilling and capturing the essence of movement was the point of his abstract art, whether it was leaves stirred by the wind, waves cresting in the sea, the gait of an exhausted person walking along on a sweltering afternoon.