Pencil on paper Titled and signed at the bottom. Regoyos pencil text on the back. Label of the Biosca Gallery of Madrid Exhibitions: - Biosca Gallery, Madrid, 1980. Exhibition organized for the fortieth anniversary of the Gallery's existence, in whose catalog it is reproduced. Origin: - Property of the painter's daughters - Collection by D. Santiago Castro - Private collection, Madrid Regoyos, upon returning to Spain from Brussels, where he participated in the most avant-garde Belgian circles, lived in Irún in 1882 and 1883, in the Casa del Cura. From there he decided to make an artistic excursion to Zaragoza in December 1883, which was collected in the correspondence with Octave Maus, who was the organizer of the recently created Círculo de Los XX of which Regoyos was a founding member. Regoyos made this drawing in a tavern, as well as an oil painting that is still missing today unknown “A coffee in Zaragoza”. Fundamentally, he was interested in collecting scenes of common life and the customs of simple people, as is the case in this drawing. On the back, Regoyos wrote in prose a comment-complaint regarding the lack of hygiene that was found, as well as the excess of spices in the food, the stone paths and the animal sounds. This story is at the origin of what he would later call La España Negra. We thank Don Juan San Nicolás for his help in cataloging this lot Measurements: Original paper: