The exhibition comprises eighteen works by the master, signed between 1945 and 1983. Oil portraits predominate, though drawings and two still lifes are also included.
Particularly original is the series of six colored pencil portraits executed between 1947 and 1959, featuring his mother, his aunt María Victoria, and his siblings María Luisa, Luis, and José María, along with a self-portrait. In these works, Revello experiments with his confident pencil line and his mastery in highlighting profiles and volumes.
Especially revealing of his command of oil portraiture are the works devoted to his aunt Luisa (1945) and his mother (1958). Highly original due to the sitter’s pose is the portrait of his brother José María (1952). Upon José María’s marriage to Rosario Cabello, the painter gifted the bride an exquisite portrait (1959).
From his period of full creative maturity come the portraits of his nephews, such as the pencil portrait of José María Revello de Toro Cabello (1965), and the oil portraits of Juan Revello de Toro Cabello (1973) and María de los Ángeles Revello de Toro Cabello (1975). He also returned to the bust portrait of his brother José María (1977) and portrayed another niece, Ana Revello de Toro Cabello (1983).
Very special and extremely modern in its conception is the posthumous pencil portrait of José Cabello Alcaráz (1988), father of Rosario Cabello.
The exhibition is completed by two simple still lifes, clearly inspired by the austere Zurbarán-esque models (1951) and (n.d.).