Isabel Quintanilla was born in a turbulent time. It was 1938 in Madrid, and her father, a Spanish Republican commandant, was killed shortly afterwards by the fascists. Though she married the sculptor Francisco Lopéz, and circulated in Spain’s avant-garde circles, Quintanilla was never well known in her native country. And while the world was responding to Abstract Expressionism and Pop art, she created still lifes of domestic objects—gloves, a plant, a glass of water—in a realist style, quiet and poised. This Spanish artist, who died in 2017, now receives her first retrospective, featuring around 100 works. —Elena Clavarino