La dona més pintada

The impact of the self-destruction of a work of art by Banksy in 2018 at the auction house Sotheby's is still vivid in our memory, but many of us had forgotten the case of the painter Palau Ferré, who decided to burn his own paintings in the 1970s. His appearances on television and in the media of the time are now little remembered, despite the astonishment the case generated. Màrius Serra became interested in this creator who, after a ruling by the Supreme Court, decided to throw everything he painted into the fire. Those portraits of a woman with big, fascinating eyes were going up the chimney of the painter's house. What was behind the self-destructive drive?