Montoro, Spain, 1910 — Córdoba, 1985. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Seville and worked as a ceramic painter. In 1927 he moved to Madrid, where he exhibited with the Sociedad de Artistas Ibéricos. He moved from early Surrealism to a socially committed Expressionism. During the Civil War he published «Sixteen War Drawings» (1937) and exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion in Paris. In 1939 he crossed into France, was held in the Argelès-sur-Mer camp and reached Mexico that same year.
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There he painted his «Exodus» series, worked with Siqueiros, won a Guggenheim Fellowship (1941) and taught at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. From 1976 he exhibited again in Spain, where he settled for good in the 1980s; in 1982 a museum devoted to his work opened in Montoro.
47.5 x 30 cm
Oil on paper
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