Organizers of the 29th BMW Painting Award announced the winners of this edition of the event. With a purse of 25,000.00 euros, the Painting Award was conferred to 29-year-old artist Daniel Merlín-Lewin. Another three young artists received the following recognitions: the Mario Antolín Aid Grant for Pictorial Research, with a purse of 8,000.00 euros, went to 24-year-old Victoria Iranzo, born in Cuenca; the Youngest Talent Award was granted to 10-year-old Paloma Ruiz-Moreno; and, a new category, the Innovation Award was conferred to the pictorial work Nube Sobre Plano (Cloud on Plane) by Fernando Romero. The four winners were selected from among 800 participating artists that presented a wide-ranging number of tendencies, techniques and styles. Another 10 artists were also awarded with the Medal of Honor for the pictorial quality of their works. Daniel Marín-Lewin was awarded for an untitled work created with painted papers glued to a canvas that represents the head of Samuel Beckett. In this work Marín-Lewin constructed an expressionist figuration that consists of segments that, through the head, exalt the figure and the genius of the Irish avant-garde writer. The Medal of Honor recipients were: Dominika Berger, with Silencio (Silence); Francisco-Solano Jiménez-Castro, Winter Landscape VI; Fanny Grau-Noguera, Tercera Sinfonía (Third Symphony); Jordi Díaz-Alamá, Reinas de la Noche (Queens of the Night); Jinzhong Rao, Instante Eterno (Eternal Instant). María Jesús Armesto-Martínez, Cedo (I Give In). José María Pinto-Rey, Ventana al Atlántico (Window to the Atlantic). Francisco Vera-Muñóz, El Canal 3 (Channel 3). Bartolomé Junquero-García, Mirada Interior (Interior Gaze). Jorge Gallego-García, Final y Principio (End and Beginning).