Irún por la tarde (Irún in the Evening)

Darío de Regoyos painted the Basque town of Irún on the French border at dusk, capturing the warm evening light that transforms an industrial border town into a subject of chromatic beauty. Regoyos had spent formative years in Belgium and France, and his sensitivity to the Post-Impressionist potential of evening and transitional light was sharpened by those experiences. Irún, as a border crossing point, had a particular character as a town between cultures; Regoyos's painting gives the ordinary townscape an atmospheric dignity that transcends the merely topographic. The work is now at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Regoyos renders the evening atmosphere through a warm palette of oranges, pinks, and muted purples, applied with his characteristic divided brushstroke that gives the surface optical vibrancy. The composition is broadly simple — a street or square with the town behind — organized to capture the quality of fading light.