Dreamlike and gently off-kilter, this large-scale painting by Raphael Angel Collazo plays with figuration and abstraction in equal measure. Soft washes of ochre, blush, and sage blur into elongated forms and faraway gazes — part memory, part myth. There’s a quiet pull to it, like a story being half-told or half-remembered.

Raphael Collazo (1943-1990) was a New York painter of Puerto Rican birth; whose work is rooted in Abstract Expressionism, in the Italian masters and in the eighteenth century French painters, particularly Watteau.

Collazo brought his Puerto Rican heritage and expressive visual language into work that explored identity, gesture, and emotional nuance through layered colour and shifting form.

Signed by the artist and dated, 1966.