Almond Trees in Blossom

Darío de Regoyos was the most significant Spanish painter to absorb the lessons of Belgian Neo-Impressionism, having lived in Brussels in the 1880s and befriended Émile Verhaeren and the Les XX circle. By 1902, working in the Basque Country and Catalonia, he was translating Pointillist technique into the intense Mediterranean light of the Iberian peninsula. Almond blossom was a subject of particular resonance in Spanish landscape painting — brief, brilliant, and poised between winter and spring — and Regoyos's handling connects him to the broader European tradition of seasonal landscape while insisting on a distinctly Spanish light and chromatic temperature. The Carmen Thyssen Museum holds several Regoyos works that trace his consistent focus on regional Spanish landscape.

Regoyos applies paint in the divided touches characteristic of Neo-Impressionism, though more loosely than orthodox Seurat followers. The white and pale pink of the blossoms is built from small strokes of adjacent cool and warm tones, while sky and ground are handled in longer, more gestural marks that give the composition its freshness.