By the forties and fifties of the last century, Colombian art began a profound process of renewal that would allow it to break free from the rigid academic structures in place and make its way toward the modernity advancing without barriers in the world. Among the group of artists who at that time decisively took on this generational struggle, the figure of Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo stands out. Firmly rooted in the figurative context, Gómez Jaramillo worked successfully and diligently on innovation in chromaticism and the concept of the figure. This book, which opens with a masterful study by Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda on the painter's work, illustrated in color throughout its pages, settles a pending debt with one of the most serious precursors of current Colombian art.