Javier BUENO (1915-1979). "Execution of a Spanish peasant (shot)". Oil on canvas signed and dated 1937 lower right, titled on a handwritten label on the back on the frame. Height : 200 cm 200 cm - Width : 101 cm Javier Bueno, a committed republican, became the painter of the political events of the Spanish Civil War. He places himself as the heir of the Golden Age, inspired by the genre scenes of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and the portraits of Francisco de Zurbaran, in order to highlight, with an economy of means and colors, all the dramatic expression and misery of the victims of Franco's political regime.