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This painting by Alfonso Ponce de León is actually a prophetic self-portrait in which the author

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seems to foresee his own imminent and tragic death in

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1936, the same year he painted the picture. The scenes which

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leans more towards a magical realism than a surrealism, thus however possess connotation of a generic vision, a

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feeling which a number of factors

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contribute. The strange position of the body, the limbs disappear between the headlamps, the car's bodywork,

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the light illuminating the scene which cannot come from the headlamps because they are broken, and above all the strange way that

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the

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possibly lifeless character is pointing at his forehead with a finger.

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The powerful spotlight defines shapes and casting mysterious

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shadows. This is also one of the most important

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disconnecting

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elements, lending to the whole painting an almost ghost-like quality.

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He was married with Margarita Manso, which was a very prominent Spanish painter belonging to the so-called

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generation of 27. This group of artists

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include some famous people such as Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca,

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whom the artist served as muse as a role in which she would be her first husband. Alfonso Ponce de León

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made her most emblematic portraits.

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Together with a friend of hers, she was part of a very notorious group of women in her time called Las Sin Sombrero.

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She was associated with a liberal thinking independent woman and a modern and

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authentic beauty.