It is in his ‘Mexican Nights’ paintings that Lezama creates many of his most densely populated compositions, bringing together every tradition of Mexican life from Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations to town bands, circus acts to a mock-heroic composition in which the pop singer Juan Gabriel has the noble bearing of a Roman senator, despite being surrounded by a semi-circle of naked women with the letters M–E–X–I–C–O painted across their bellies.

Each of these night-time scenes is filled with symbolic detail painted in a traditionally figurative style but with added surrealism, the hallmark of a remarkably imaginative and talented  artist.