A painter in the representational manner. Metaphor and allegory figure prominently in his oeuvre. A recurrent motif in de Batuc’s work is the Los Angeles City Hall, presenting this tall narrow structure in ways that invite political, social or even ribald interpretations.
Formally de Batuc is concerned with texture, space, and chiaroscuro.
His most popularly known work is a street mural in Hollywood that pays homage to Dolores Delegate Río one of the golden age of filmdom"s most acclaimed beauties. In 2005 Alfredo de Batuc was stricken with a severe case of Guillain–Barré syndrome which has kept him from active life since, and from which he is slowly recovering.