Spanish Landscape with Mountains

Dora Carrington was an English painter and decorative artist remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey. Spanish Landscape with Mountains demonstrates her fascination with the Andalusian landscape which she visited during her travels throughout France and Spain in the 1920s. The steep, rolling mountains in the foreground of this painting contrast with the jagged peaks in the background, and the impression is of a distant territory, both unfamiliar and alien. The enormous scale of the mountains is emphasized by the inclusion of four mules and their muleteers which are just visible along a narrow path, and the warm climate is evident from the cacti which grow in the otherwise barren landscape. 

Carrington made studies for this painting at Yegen, a town 4,000 feet above sea level in Southern Spain that offered spectacular views of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. She wrote to a friend who was then living in Yegen: "I am very happy working on two Yegen pictures. They transport me into another world. I cannot express quite what a relief it is."

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